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VirtualBox performance is awful with Hyper-V, so no, still not using it...

by mehrdadn 6y ago

sdflhasjd 6y ago
Well, you're a step ahead of me, I've never even got VirtualBox working with Hyper-V
- jonathanlydall 6y ago
  Since Windows 10 2004 and a corresponding update to VirtualBox, it's pretty easy to get it working at the same time as Hyper-V, but as the parent poster said, performance is terrible.
  - sdflhasjd 6y ago
    Does anyone know what causes the performance issues?
oblio 6y ago
I'm genuinely curious, what's your use case? Most stuff should be covered by WSL itself or Docker, I imagine.
- Jonnax 6y ago
  There are plenty of applications distributed as virtual machine images. So your choices are usually KVM, vmware, HyperV and sometimes virtualbox images.
- sdflhasjd 6y ago
  There's data recovery tools that I like to use, VirtualBox supports USB forwarding. My last particular use case was ddrescue on an SD card, Windows would eject/disconnect the card after some number of read errors. Any other case where I need to use a Linux device driver (RTL-SDR was another thing I used this for)
- mehrdadn 6y ago
  I'm not interested in debating my specific use cases, but there are so many obvious uses. For one, have you considered some people might e.g. need to test things on Windows VMs?
  - oblio 6y ago
    This entire discussion is about WSL...
    - mehrdadn 6y ago
      And? Is it so weird to imagine WSL users who also need to be able to run Windows VMs?
      - oblio 6y ago
        I guess the concern is using VirtualBox instead of HyperV? Is there a use case VirtualBox covers that HyperV doesn't? (or VMWare)
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        mehrdadn 6y ago
        VirtualBox supports USB 1-3, it has immutable disks built-in, it supports VMDK/VDI/HDD, it lets you drag-and-drop, it supports like a gazillion different controller formats, it allows host I/O caching, and like I already said it can be just plain faster... just a non-exhaustive list off the top of my head. Are you genuinely unaware of its features and strengths...?
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        nickflood 6y ago
        Port forwarding and shared folders. Hyper-V has neither, and it's a pain to migrate, and also there's a perf impact.

VirtualBox performance is awful with Hyper-V, so no, still not using it...

sdflhasjd 6y ago

Well, you're a step ahead of me, I've never even got VirtualBox working with Hyper-V

jonathanlydall 6y ago
Since Windows 10 2004 and a corresponding update to VirtualBox, it's pretty easy to get it working at the same time as Hyper-V, but as the parent poster said, performance is terrible.
- sdflhasjd 6y ago
  Does anyone know what causes the performance issues?

oblio 6y ago

I'm genuinely curious, what's your use case? Most stuff should be covered by WSL itself or Docker, I imagine.

Jonnax 6y ago
There are plenty of applications distributed as virtual machine images. So your choices are usually KVM, vmware, HyperV and sometimes virtualbox images.
sdflhasjd 6y ago
There's data recovery tools that I like to use, VirtualBox supports USB forwarding. My last particular use case was ddrescue on an SD card, Windows would eject/disconnect the card after some number of read errors. Any other case where I need to use a Linux device driver (RTL-SDR was another thing I used this for)
mehrdadn 6y ago
I'm not interested in debating my specific use cases, but there are so many obvious uses. For one, have you considered some people might e.g. need to test things on Windows VMs?
- oblio 6y ago
  This entire discussion is about WSL...
  - mehrdadn 6y ago
    And? Is it so weird to imagine WSL users who also need to be able to run Windows VMs?
    - oblio 6y ago
      I guess the concern is using VirtualBox instead of HyperV? Is there a use case VirtualBox covers that HyperV doesn't? (or VMWare)
      - deleted 6y ago
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      - mehrdadn 6y ago
        VirtualBox supports USB 1-3, it has immutable disks built-in, it supports VMDK/VDI/HDD, it lets you drag-and-drop, it supports like a gazillion different controller formats, it allows host I/O caching, and like I already said it can be just plain faster... just a non-exhaustive list off the top of my head. Are you genuinely unaware of its features and strengths...?
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      - nickflood 6y ago
        Port forwarding and shared folders. Hyper-V has neither, and it's a pain to migrate, and also there's a perf impact.