[Darth-Apple]

I personally love virtual machines, and find them extremely useful. I'm currently using virtualbox, but the screen resolution is very annoying with VB, so I was wondering if there was a good alternative that people have found to be good. Any suggestions?

-DarthApple

[Gmdykfuiygh66476]

Unfortunately virtualbox is your best bet. VMware is too commercialized (and will not let you install it alongside other VM software either if i'm right) and its extremely slow. I sometimes work around the screen resolution problem by resizing the window and increasing the resolution in the control panel (or whatever OS you're using in the VM)

[Darth-Apple]

I've found more luck with some distros of Linux than with others. The screen resolution issue was definitely an issue when I was taking advantange of the windows 8 trial.

Virtualbox does actually have guest utilities, which is supposed to solve that. I could never get them to work though. I guess one of these days I'll figure it all out.

anyway, thanks

[SpookyZalost]

I still use virtualbox lol.

though dosbox does a great job running windows 9X if you know how to set it up.

[Guardian]

Vitrualbox!

We use VMWare at work, not as many problems with it as their used to be, but it is the commercial option now.