

You need no prior experience with VMware Workstation to appreciate its smartly organized interface. The most visible are support for Windows 8 and USB 3.0 improved graphics drivers, which include OpenGL support for Linux guests nested virtualization, which allows - among other things - running Hyper-V in a guest (at your own risk!) and a number of remote-control and VM management improvements. Version 9 adds such a bevy of new features to the product that listing them all in one place threatens to become overwhelming. In addition to all the features users of such a product might need, Workstation has some capabilities that users might never have thought about.

It's not just a top-notch VM host, it sports a level of polish and attention to detail worthy of a $249 desktop virtualization product. VMware Workstation 9 It's difficult to go wrong with VMware Workstation. I tested Workstation and VirtualBox on an Intel Core i7-3770K CPU with 16GB of RAM, 128GB of SSD system-volume storage, and 2TB of additional hard disk space. Whereas VirtualBox supports Mac OS X hosts and guests as well, VMware offers a separate product, VMware Fusion, for the Mac. (You can experiment if you have less than 16 Gb, but you might find the experience frustrating.) The easiest virtual machine manager to use is probably VirtualBox.Both products run on Windows or Linux hosts, and both support a broad range of Windows, Linux, and Unix guests. If you have at least 16 Gb RAM (preferably more), you can experiment yourself with VMs. Would love to hear from you regarding this matter. What has worked well for you folks, what hasn’t worked well? See below for some options that I have found. I've been having non-stop issues with updates lately though anyway.ĭear fellow Mac users, What’s your favourite hypervisor for a macOS host? I’m currently pondering what hypervisor to use and would appreciate some input from other Mac users.


Regretfully, I have run into too many problems with the latest upgrade of PopOS and am going to switch back to vanilla Ubuntuĭid they fix the Virtualbox issue? Even after two weeks I wasn't getting a new version so had to download the deb file from. Parallels is great (and fast), but you might be able to do the same thing with virtualBox for free. I checked that I see VirtualBox 7 is out!
