Whats your favourite virtualisation software?

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Am I crazy for saying Virtual Box? Ive tried both free and paid offerings of vmware, parallels, hyper v and nothing compares to virtual box smooth error free platform (almost). When it comes to simply needing to create a few windows machines and even domain controllers it handles it well.

 

Always been a fan of Oracle VM VirtualBox for personal usage.
Prefer Hyper-V over VMWare for work usage.

 

Docker is pretty cool but its container. Vagrant also pretty cool.
VM Workbench I like but its a bit expensive.
Generally I use VirtualBox for personal use, but I dont use it much these days.

 

Virtual box is quite good

I do love VM ware workstation and Vsphere to be fair

 

On my mac I use parallels, seems to work better than Fusion and I like the out-of the box integration with mac and windows VM (work apps). On the PC at home, I use builtin Hyper-V on Windows 10 and I also have a VMware vSphere Lab which I use mainly for testing, PoC, and learning.

Never really used Virtual Box as I have all the other software pretty much free as well.

 

I know it's not the best, but I just use VirtualBox. I can shuttle VMs back and forth from Windows and Linux, it's dead simple to use and it seems to handle anything I can throw at it, not that I've ever thrown anything worse than Windows 7 at it.

 

Does Virtual Babes 4 count ?

 

all my Win10 systems use Hyper-V, its there, it's free, ta-da
my mac uses Parallels, but I'm not 100% convinced on this pay up every year lark they bring to the table lol
it does seem to perform a fair bit quicker than Fusion though, which saddens me as I have owned fusion since v1 (picked it up at VMWorld 2007 cheap!)

 

VirtualBox actually let me down hardcore last night.. I was running PowerShell and it just couldn't handle it, I had sufficient RAM and the image was running of an SSD but nope it was having none of it, was annoyed as I had to then setup a new lab on physical hardware. As I am using a Mac I may have to give Vmware Fusion a try.. (not a fan of parallels)

 

Most modern computers are powerful enough to run complete operating systems within their main operating systems, which means that virtual machines are now more common than ever. Here is a look at the five most popular virtual machine applications.

Virtual machines allow you to run a single operating system on another operating system. Your basic operating system can be Windows 7 64-bit, for example, but with enough memory and power processing, you can run Ubuntu and X OS side by side within it. Earlier this week, we asked you to share your favorite virtual machine application, and now we highlight again the five most popular frames.

 

For me it's vSphere, I have it at home but at work we have a mix of vSphere, OpenStack and OpenShift, also looking at K8 as well.

The best is what's best for you, there won't ever be a one size fits all product.