I didn't investigate further.įor me, I started with VMware and that is what I choose. Maybe there is a way around that minimum purchase.

Licenses are $50 each with a minimum order of 100. Everyone talks about how it is free, but it isn't free if you are using the Extension Pack (you really need it) for commercial use. But I also ran into issues with their licensing. But, when I need to connect to a device via USB and I can do so with VMware Workstation it made Hyper-V a non starter.

Which, I understand that is intentionally the philosophy to make the VM isolated from the host. The downside for me was the lack of USB support for connecting to external devices such as a PLC. I have never had issues with software not working as it should within Hyper-V.

I don't use it for Rockwell but more for Dev stuff and legacy programs, got images for Server 2012, 2008, XP, Win10 and a Linux one too VMWare Workstation here too, just make sure you get a decent sized second drive if you can to use as the VM HDD, also get as much RAM as you can in the machine, at least 16GB. Are there enough horror stories with other virtual machines for me have good ground to push for VMWare? I've used it before, can make it work, and Rockwell pushes it. Personally, I'd prefer to use VMWare Workstation Pro. We have another division that uses VirtualBox for their VM'ing. Does anyone have any experience using it with the Rockwell software? I have no experience with it. Our IT department is pushing me towards Hyper-V. We primarily run Rockwell software and are currently using FTView 8.0 and Studio 5000 v24, neither of which are officially Windows 10 compatible. I'm getting a new laptop from work that shipped with Windows 10 that our IT department wasn't able to downgrade to Win7 64.

Vmware vs virtualbox vs hyper v