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better than Virtualbox Just take a look at VBoxManage --help for a crazy list of settings and features that VBox has accumulated during the past ~10 years. It
by fensipens 10y ago
better than Virtualbox
Just take a look at VBoxManage --help for a crazy list of settings and features that VBox has accumulated during the past ~10 years.
It even supports ATA TRIM so your fs-driver can discard blocks and keep the VDI-file deflated at all times.
Performance-wise: Compiling stuff within VBox on an i7 quad-core (-j5) is almost as fast as native. X on Linux-VMs feels native too, especially when running in fullscreen.
- jlgaddis 10y agoOut of curiosity, have you tried anything other than VirtualBox (e.g. VMware Fusion)? I was happy with VirtualBox's (on OS X) performance until I bought VMware Fusion. I didn't do any benchmarks so I don't have numbers to back up my claim but it definitely "felt" much faster than VirtualBox.
- fensipens 10y agoI never tried VMF so it may be faster, sure. The thing about VBox is, like I wrote, features. VBox is basically a full-featured Virtualization-Suite, has multiple UIs and an API. It is also available on Win7,8,10/macOS/Linux and Solaris. You may add: excellent documentation and friendly support (board, irc, list). If I'll ever have to switch, I'd first need feature-parity.