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by Etheryte 3514 days ago
Likewise. The announcement makes it sound like they tried to compete with free (VirtualBox) and couldn't.
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The difference between VB and Veertu is that the latter is much less invasive (so less potential for screwups and problems with other invasive solutions like VMWare Fusion) and it's potentially much faster because it leverages the Apple subsystem. VB has a chequered record on OSX.

I like Veertu, but I'm a bit sad about the increasing level of fragmentation in the virtualization space. Where before you had a couple of products, you now have dozens of mostly incompatible ones. I have team-mates pushing for Hyper-V since they're all on Windows, I don't like VirtualBox and I find it more and more difficult to justify spending money on VmWare licenses, considering they are not significantly improving desktop products. I wish new players like Veertu offered better interoperability, i.e. export features as well as import - although I understand why that might not look as being in their best interest.

It uses the native hypervisor in macOS, so it can be smaller than VirtualBox.
And since it uses Hypervisor.framework, it does not require any extra kexts and the App Store version was running in a sandbox.