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by Retr0id 145 days ago
> VirtualBox 7.2.4 shipped with a regression that causes high CPU usage on idle guests. What are the odds.

I have such a love/hate relationship with VirtualBox. It's so useful but so buggy. My current installation has a bug that causes high network latency, but I'm afraid to upgrade in case it introduces new, worse bugs.

VMware is a million times better, but it is also Proprietary™
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intrasight 145 days ago
As VMWare Workstation is now free on Linux and Windows, and allows you to create and rollback snapshots. Why not use it even if proprietary?
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Retr0id 145 days ago
It's a good question and I'm pretty on the fence about it, and next time I'm reinstalling things I might switch.

I do believe in the whole RMS "respects the user's freedoms" spiel, so all things being equal I prefer FOSS, even if it's worse - but there are limits.

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HWR_14 145 days ago
And OSX. Or the functionality is free, but the name of the client might be different
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