If you are using a laptop that has both EthLan and WLan and are using wifi connection or Lan connection, I would advise you to configure your vm with 2.
![Wifislax for virtualbox Wifislax for virtualbox](http://i.imgur.com/S7JD5LV.png?1)
For me it's VirtualBox. Can't give a comairision with VMWare though, have not used VMware in ages. I am sure it has improved quite a bit. It does work with Linux.
I have a good friend who runs it on Slackware and prefers it over VirtualBox. My reason for using it.
Mostly because I know it. I have been using VirtualBox for a number of years now.
![Wifislax Wifislax](/uploads/1/2/5/3/125396740/736025826.png)
For me it's simple to install, update and creating virtual machines a is relatively simple. At the moment I have 15 virtual machines installed in VirtualBox. All were installed using a ISO image, though using a physical CD works as well. Some are setup as Live CD/DVD with no virtual hard drive. My host for VirtualBox is Slackware64. I have run various guest machines.
See my signature for the current summary of operating systems. For me personally. In theory: VirtualBox In reality: VMware Workstation VirtualBox has a good looking and decently intuitive interface, is fast, has a lot of features, costs nothing. Seems like it's perfect. Unfortunately, for me it has always been buggy, unreliable and I had frequently asked myself it wasn't more trouble than it was worth.
VMware Workstation, although expensive, works as advertised. Best example are USB devices, it was a damn nightmare to manage them and use them in VirtualBox, whereas in VMware it Just Works™.