Installing follows the familiar NNF-Pattern ( Next-Next-Finish). Downloadable from the VirtualBox Download Page. So, for me it is only VirtualBox now and we have come to version 6.0.4 at time of writing. There was a period of time that I had both on my laptop. Since Oracle acquired VirtualBox, and because of several direction-changes at VMWare (introduction and revocation of VMWare Server, VMWare player that couldn't create VMs and then it could, and then it couldn't anymore.), after a while it made sense to me to switch to VirtualBox completely. Since all is saved in a folder of files, I could do one install and share it with colleagues. It was an eyeopener to see that you could run multiple PCs on your laptop, separating different versions of Oracle Products that could even 'talk' to eachother! It must have been around 2003 that I got introduced into VMWare Workstation by my former colleague Robert. And my All time favorite cockpit: TotalCommander.And I found it (for now) in the combination of: So, I have been looking for automating some startup and working on the most convenient setup for me. And it will allow me to cleanup even my local installments of SQLDeveloper or JDeveloper.

With the XWindows Server in MobaXterm, working with either SQLDeveloper or JDeveloper is very convenient. And I use MobaXterm to connect with them and shortly, I use it to start my Oracle tools from MobaXterm. But, lately I work with my VM's (mostly Oracle Linux) using Vagrant most of the time. Now, I didn't use this in a long time, so it might have been improved. But it was quite hard to work with multiple screens, and to start the applications using the embedded menu. Of the two I found that VMWare implemented it the most transparent. I wasn't too enthousiastic about those modes.

Back in the days I ran OpenSuse on my laptop, and had Windows XP or 7 on a Virtual Machine for those cases I had to run PowerPoint.

In those modes you start an application on your virtual machine, but the windows appear as running on your host system. Years ago I played around with VMWare Unity Mode in VMWare player or VirtualBox's Seemless mode.

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