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I would be concerned if the next version of VMWare Workstation was subscription-only. I think VMWare has some nicer tools around snapshots and networking, but i
by henriquez 3y ago
I would be concerned if the next version of VMWare Workstation was subscription-only. I think VMWare has some nicer tools around snapshots and networking, but if they want to move to a rent model I’d be back to Virtualbox in a heartbeat.
- hilbert42 3y ago"I’d be back to Virtualbox in a heartbeat." Trouble is that VirtualBox could easily go the same way. As VMware has shifted model it's now easy for VirtualBox to follow suit as there's no competing alternative or equivalent. And Oracle has form in this regard, look at the way it dumped OpenOffice after it decided it couldn't monetarize it.
- failsecured 3y agoDon't forget that KVM and QEMU are great alternatives to Virtualbox depending on ones needs (OS host, kernel vs user mode, hw acceleration).
- henriquez 3y agoVirtualbox is FOSS as long as you don’t install the extension pack, so worst-case scenario it gets forked.