So which is the better Virtual Machine software? Anecdotally,

Bumping for interest.
I've only ever used Virtualbox and that once Microsoft one, whatever it's called.

>>58493003
KVM with virt-manager front end on Debian.
Open source mah nigga.

vmware player, I wouldn't have any idea.
esxi and workstation beats the shit out of virtualbox however.

I still use virtualbox every day at work though, as well as KVM via proxmox.

In the end it depends on what you're doing and the administrative needs.

Virtualbox is great for vagrant use by developers, cause it's cheap and does the job. Impossible to administer at scale though.

KVM is great if your enterprise is too stingy to pay for vmware's infrastructure.

>>58493292
>Microsoft one
hyperv. Used only by microsoft cucks and the azure cloud.

>vbox
>just works

>vmware
>LOL KERNEL MODULE WONT COMPILE GOOD LUCK FUCK YOU WE WON'T SUPPORT ANYTHING EXCEPT GOD KNOWS WHAT
If you can't even support Debian Stable, fuck you.

>>58493424
Vmware's customers aren't running debian stable.

>>58493437
debian works just fine in vmware

>>58493003
>>58493424
VMware is the one people have been paid to make.
VirtualBox has had issues, even on fedora.

>>58493003
>using a type 2 hypervisor

>>58493509
You're missing the bigger difference: Virtualbox isn't bare metal.

>>58493424
VMWare is intended for companies. Businesses don't use Debian.

>>58493003
couldn't get any usb scanners to work under virtualbox. the same scanners worked fine under vmware.

>>58493699

>VMWare is intended for companies. Businesses don't use Debian.

Businesses damn sure use Ubuntu.

they're both proprietary

>>58493003
VMWare player is definitely faster and more stable, but qemu beats them out considerably in terms of "hardware" support and paravirtualization options.

>>58494926
except virtualbox isn't, (you) uneducated swine.

>>58494999
It requires a proprietary toolchain to compile, which is just as bad

>>58493003
Vmware workstation

>>58495010
Isn't that just the extensions that are proprietary?
I thought that VirtualBox core was FOSS and you could compile it in GCC or LLVM.

qemu -enable-kvm

The best!

>>58495084
>not the Xen hypervisor..
plebian

>>58493003
I use Workstation due to start on boot and remote connection allowing me to run all my VM's on a headless box and being able to control them from my laptop as if it were running on that machine.

Virtual box has shit slow disk io, use VMware if your doing any serious disk churning.

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>>58495364
doubt this is a true claim
I am on arch, have one windows 8.1 VM on my SSD and its incredible how fast everything is
from cold startup in 5 sec to running any common application

only graphic performance is shit, cant play all porn games, only the most

>>58493003
>So which is the better Virtual Machine software?
Depends on what you're doing. Used to like Virtual Box, then Sun became Oracle. Fuck Oracle with a big rubber dick.

ESXi makes sense if you're not doing a lot of Microsoft stuff. If you are, you should be using Hyper-V, because AVMA.

Hyper-V is all you need.

>>58495897
no usb support

>>58495051
I am on Gentoo, and it definitely compiles for me.
It has outside kernel modules that taint it, but I think are probably FOSS, and also extension pack for advanced features, which is proprietary.

>>58493003
bhyve.