easy to move my mouse cursor from Guest to Host without having to use key combinations to release the cursor.ability to share folders with my host easily – I do my developing in Guests but I share data files stored on my Host.3D Graphics acceleration – I dont want my guest to behave like a slug.So what other virtualisation software could I use on my Ubuntu 14.04 host? My basic requirements were straightforward: Every new version it seems brings new problems. I’ve had numerous X-windows crashes & failures to suspend to resume. I had been an avid VirtualBox user but I’ve become increasingly disenchanted with VirtualBox unstable nature.

So after a quick search online I have found the right approach.Over the recent weeks I’ve been using VMWare Player to play, experiment and develop in various operating systems & various versions of Ubuntu. I couldn’t find how to deinstall VMware Player via main menu, and I checked that my Linux Mint desktop didn’t have any obviously named VMware packages installed: $ dpkg -l | grep vmware

VMware Workstation won’t install unless you delete VMware Player Turns out, you can’t install VMware Workstation until the VMware Player is deleted: But now and then I like trying other options, like VMware Workstation.īecause I’ve been trying to run some VMware VM image not so long ago, I must have downloaded and installed VMware Player. I’ve been a happy user of Virtual Box for most of my desktop needs over the past years.

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