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by empire29 4724 days ago
Don't forget VirtualBox; IMO it beats out the competing commercial products
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VMware Fusion is much faster than VirtualBox: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=vmware_vi...
Not sure what you mean by "much" faster. Most of the benchmarks have fractional differences. I think comparing an Apple only, commercial program, to a free and open source multi-platform program, VirtualBox would "win" for a lot of people, because it's not just about benchmarks.
> And what's the point of comparing the performance of an Apple only, commercial program, to a free and open source multi-platform program.

If I have a Mac and need to virtualize things, 'free and open source' doesn't really matter.

Also, don't forget that USB 2.0 support is closed source and subject to a special license.