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  5. Eclipse Che vs VirtualBox

Eclipse Che vs VirtualBox

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Overview

VirtualBox
VirtualBox
Stacks31.1K
Followers25.6K
Votes1.1K
Eclipse Che
Eclipse Che
Stacks58
Followers148
Votes28

Eclipse Che vs VirtualBox: What are the differences?

Developers describe Eclipse Che as "Next-Generation Eclipse IDE. Eclipse Che is an open source developer workspace server and cloud IDE". Eclipse Che is the only open source cloud IDE with RESTful workspaces and Docker-based machines. It's as powerful as it sounds. On the other hand, VirtualBox is detailed as "Run nearly any operating system on a single machine and to freely switch between OS instances running simultaneously". VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

Eclipse Che can be classified as a tool in the "Cloud IDE" category, while VirtualBox is grouped under "Virtualization Platform".

Some of the features offered by Eclipse Che are:

  • Universal Workspace
  • Docker Machines
  • Workspace Agents

On the other hand, VirtualBox provides the following key features:

  • Portability
  • No hardware virtualization required
  • Guest Additions: shared folders, seamless windows, 3D virtualization

"Cloud IDE" is the top reason why over 4 developers like Eclipse Che, while over 357 developers mention "Free" as the leading cause for choosing VirtualBox.

Eclipse Che is an open source tool with 5.56K GitHub stars and 1.03K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Eclipse Che's open source repository on GitHub.

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Advice on VirtualBox, Eclipse Che

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Apr 24, 2020

Needs adviceonPythonPythonAnacondaAnacondaJavaJava

I am going to learn machine learning and self host an online IDE, the tool that i may use is Python, Anaconda, various python library and etc. which tools should i go for? this may include Java development, web development. Now i have 1 more candidate which are visual studio code online (code server). i will host on google cloud

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Detailed Comparison

VirtualBox
VirtualBox
Eclipse Che
Eclipse Che

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

Eclipse Che makes Kubernetes development accessible for developer teams, providing one-click developer workspaces and eliminating local environment configuration for your entire team.

Portability;No hardware virtualization required;Guest Additions: shared folders, seamless windows, 3D virtualization;Great hardware support;Multigeneration branched snapshots;VM groups;Clean architecture; unprecedented modularity;Remote machine display
Universal Workspace; Docker Machines; Workspace Agents; Workspace Snapshots; Collaborative Workspaces; RESTful Workspaces; SSH / Terminal; Cloud IDE; Integrated Ops Environment; Multi-Machine; Multi-Project; Commands; Previews; Java Intellisense; JavaScript Intellisense; Light Theme; Plug-Ins; Open Source;
Statistics
Stacks
31.1K
Stacks
58
Followers
25.6K
Followers
148
Votes
1.1K
Votes
28
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 358
    Free
  • 231
    Easy
  • 169
    Default for vagrant
  • 110
    Fast
  • 73
    Starts quickly
Pros
  • 12
    Cloud IDE
  • 7
    Open Source
  • 5
    Powerful
  • 2
    Can be locally hosted
  • 1
    Intelligent
Cons
  • 2
    LAck of support for golang
Integrations
No integrations available
Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps
Google Compute Engine
Google Compute Engine
GitHub Enterprise
GitHub Enterprise
GitLab
GitLab
Bitbucket
Bitbucket
GitHub
GitHub
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
Docker
Docker
Jira
Jira
SVN (Subversion)
SVN (Subversion)

What are some alternatives to VirtualBox, Eclipse Che?

Red Hat Codeready Workspaces

Red Hat Codeready Workspaces

Built on the open Eclipse Che project, Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces provides developer workspaces, which include all the tools and the dependencies that are needed to code, build, test, run, and debug applications.

AWS Cloud9

AWS Cloud9

Cloud9 provides a development environment in the cloud. Cloud9 enables developers to get started with coding immediately with pre-setup environments called workspaces, collaborate with their peers with collaborative coding features, and build web apps with features like live preview and browser compatibility testing. It supports more than 40 languages, with class A support for PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript/Node.js, and Go.

Koding

Koding

Koding is a feature rich cloud-based development environment complete with free VMs, an attractive IDE & sudo level terminal access!

Nitrous.IO

Nitrous.IO

Get setup lightning fast in the cloud & code from anywhere, on any machine.

Codeanywhere

Codeanywhere

A development platform that enables you to not only edit your files from underlying services like FTP, GitHub, Dropbox and the like, but on top of that gives you the ability to collaborate, embed and share through Codeanywhere on any device.

Codio

Codio

Every project gets its own Box: an instantly available server-side development environment with full terminal access. With features such as forking, collaboration, importing from Git repos and more, Codio strives to remove as many barriers as possible to create a platform developers will enjoy using as their IDE of choice.

Proxmox VE

Proxmox VE

It is a complete open-source platform for all-inclusive enterprise virtualization that tightly integrates KVM hypervisor and LXC containers, software-defined storage and networking functionality on a single platform, and easily manages high availability clusters and disaster recovery tools with the built-in web management interface.

VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere

vSphere is the world’s leading server virtualization platform. Run fewer servers and reduce capital and operating costs using VMware vSphere to build a cloud computing infrastructure.

CodeSandbox

CodeSandbox

CodeSandbox allows developers to simply go to a URL in their browser to start building. This not only makes it easier to get started, it also makes it easier to share. You can just share your created work by sharing the URL, others can then (without downloading) further develop on these sandboxes.

StackBlitz

StackBlitz

StackBlitz is the browser-based IDE that eliminates time-consuming local configuration and lets you spend 
more time coding. Develop with Next.js, React, Angular, Vite, and more in a Node.js development environment entirely in your browser

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