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V2 Cloud
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Easy to use
It's fast enough and a user friendly solution to move your operations to a cloud-based computer. This is the company to work with.
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No GPU
If you are looking for a system that has GPU, this solution isn't recommended.
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The customer support services they offer are second to none
Basically, the system has an inbuilt chat window that you can use to interact with tech support and get instant assistance.
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Oracle VirtualBox
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Works with Vagrant
Works with Vagrant, an awesome tool for managing and deploying virtual machine images.
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Inferior performance
Apart from second-class performance in virtualization, there are some visual glitches with Windows 8.1 on Mavericks.
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Free, mostly open source and cross-platform
VirtualBox is available for free with source code available here. A "VirtualBox Extension Pack" that includes virtual USB 2.0, VirtualBox RDP & PXE boot support is available only under a commercial license. VirtualBox is available on Windows, Linux, OSX and Solaris.
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Confusing interface and lacking usability features
VirtualBox might be a bit confusing for beginners - it requires an understanding of a lot more technical details than other VMs.
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Can do snapshots
VirtualBox is capable of taking whole-system snapshots and writing them to a backing file.
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Docker
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Allows for portable application deployment
Docker creates a single object, containing an application with its dependencies, that can be moved between any docker-enabled machines, guaranteeing the same environment for application execution.
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Large image size
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Git-like capabilities
Docker tracks changes in systems. It allows for commits and rollbacks and for quick deployment due to having to deploy only the updated code.
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Security concerns
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Allows re-using components
Docker essentially allows creating boilerplate systems (a LAMP stack, for example) that can be used as a starting point on multiple projects. And you can find multiple such containers already created by people in their public registry.
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Kernel OS fragmentation
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Automatic build
Allows automatically assembling a container from its source code.
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Provides easy sharing and installation of containers through a public registry
Docker allows easily pushing and pulling containers to and from their public index.docker.io registry. Additionally, dotCloud maintains a list of official repositories of the more popular containers.
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Application-centric
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Works in virtualized environments
You can set up Docker within an already virtualized environment such as a virtual machine. This allows you to run Docker on Mac and Windows, among other use-cases.
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Low overhead
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Supports a wide range of isolation tools
Docker can be used with OpenVZ, systemd-nspawn, libvirt-lxc, libvirt-sandbox, qemu/kvm, BSD Jails, Solaris Zones, and chroot.
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Tool ecosystem
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Virtual Box
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Compatible with Many Operating Systems
It works for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, and many others.
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Lacks video performance
Virtualbox has a hard cap of 256MB of video memory. This could make newer operating systems run slower.
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Beginner friendly
A virtual machine can be set up in minutes if a ISO file to load is already available.
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Minimal CPU customization
You can only enable/disable certain features. You cannot cap the speed of the CPU, which is required to run systems such as Windows 95.
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Works well and fast for Windows host and Linux guest
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Free and open source
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Many free images available
Though most are linux flavors at https://virtualboxes.org/ Oracle's virtualbox site has others.
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Can do snapshots
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A lot of customization
VirtualBox has multiple virtualization options. Each one may be tailored to the guest operating system’s needs. This makes it especially good on virtualizing older systems, such as DOS, obscure distros, etc.
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