Out of personal reference, I like VMWare Workstation over VirtualBox, no real difference, other than was is free, and the other you only have a 30 day trial. It's definitely not worth the $190 IF you're only going to use it to test out a couple operating systems. If you are going to be beta testing, reviewing and tweaking. It would be justified to buy it for that price. I don't know if there is a different VMWare product that is more like VirtualBox, but that's the one I got pointed at, so I used it. Seems to run better on my computer, than VirtualBox too.