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In my experience, vmware trumps vbox in twos critical areas: backups and portability. you can take the directory with your vms and literally drop them into into another os with very little if any changes (the only changes may be to sound card name and shared folders paths).

You cant do that with vbox. If you change os, or try try to move vms without special and often long running and obscure seeming preparations and your vbox wont run ever again and often even if you succeed youll loose all the snapshots and still ahve to edit the vm before it's can be used.

  To me that ease of backup and portability is well worth the price of vmware if you can afford it. otherwise vbox is great but be prepared for an unreasonable amount of pain when you want to switch from windows to linux (and/or back), move the vms to another system / os and more pain on restoration then is reasonable.

see:
how it's really done in my experience : http://linuxfordummies.org/how-to-backup-and-move-virtualbox-machines/
How we all wish it would work but never seems to work for me: https://www.ehow.com/how_8110816_copy-move-virtualbox-machines.html

Google for wildly varying stories of vbox backup/restore pain.

They do: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE0Mzk
It's also not hard to do it yourself: http://linuxfordummies.org/installing-the-cinnamon-desktop-environment-in-fedora-16/

Here you go:

http://www.linuxfordummies.org/

Ejoy,

Here's a little hack I made for gkrellm. It works pretty well. I was working on creating a plugin for monitoring multiple gmail accounts. It has some bugs still, but it works pretty well (it's basically a hack of mailwatch, and I've added in the revolving penguin too!). I've stopped working on it since school started, and because there has been so little interest in it. I'm considering putting it up on sourceforge.net so someone can clear out the bugs for me. Note that this tutorial is oriented towards linux newbies; if you know a bit about linux you can skip over a lot of material.

Monitor a Gmail Account with gkrellm.

BTW The toolbar is pretty much meaningless in firefox; we've already got popup blocking and we also have the google search bar up by the address bar.

And, it comes with most Linux distros.
Here is a tutorial on how to do it.

My tutorial on checking gmail status in gkrellm still works flawlessly.

Monitor a Gmail Account with gkrellm