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minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoI keep forgetting that Virtual Box exists because Hyper-V has been available since Win7 and nix has qemu or KVM for native virtualisation.
minus-squaresudoku@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoI still use Virtualbox, configuration is way easier with the GUI and defaults don’t pass any USB devices.
minus-squareDonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoYup. Virtualbox has some really sane defaults. It is very easy to use.
minus-squareleo85811nardo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoVirtualBox also has snapshots, which is useful when the VM is used to “play around the OS” and possibly break the OS, such as sandboxing a custom OS build, checking out a malware, etc
I keep forgetting that Virtual Box exists because Hyper-V has been available since Win7 and nix has qemu or KVM for native virtualisation.
I still use Virtualbox, configuration is way easier with the GUI and defaults don’t pass any USB devices.
Yup. Virtualbox has some really sane defaults. It is very easy to use.
VirtualBox also has snapshots, which is useful when the VM is used to “play around the OS” and possibly break the OS, such as sandboxing a custom OS build, checking out a malware, etc