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    From Alan K.@3:633/10 to All on Friday, February 27, 2026 16:42:51
    Is it me or is VMware faster than Virtualbox?
    I'm trying both and it just seems like Virtualbox lags a bit.

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    Linux Mint 22.3, Mozilla Thunderbird 140.8.0esr, Mozilla Firefox 148.0
    Alan K.


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  • From Lawrence D?Oliveiro@3:633/10 to All on Friday, February 27, 2026 23:48:09
    On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:42:51 -0500, Alan K. wrote:

    Is it me or is VMware faster than Virtualbox?
    I'm trying both and it just seems like Virtualbox lags a bit.

    Stay away from VMware <https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/02/most-vmware-users-still-actively-reducing-their-vmware-footprint-survey-finds/>.

    I have a client doing industrial-strength virtualization with this <https://docs.xcp-ng.org/>. That has command-line tools and a
    web-based GUI <https://xen-orchestra.com/>.

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    * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10)
  • From Paul@3:633/10 to All on Friday, February 27, 2026 22:03:54
    On Fri, 2/27/2026 4:42 PM, Alan K. wrote:
    Is it me or is VMware faster than Virtualbox?
    I'm trying both and it just seems like Virtualbox lags a bit.


    There's a good chance that VMWare is faster.

    But it's a lot like discussions about football teams.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/18w8i86/if_vmware_workstation_is_mostly_faster_than/

    You could also test on QEMU-KVM.

    *******

    And you don't want to go off the deep end :-)
    It's a lot of work doing this. But I bet his
    runs faster than yours :-)

    https://github.com/bryansteiner/gpu-passthrough-tutorial

    Passthru schemes come and go.

    If you can actually harness acceleration on the
    host video card, that makes a difference.

    I'm going to pretend I don't have enough
    video cards, or for that matter, enough
    slots for this :-) Look at the labour that saves. Nice :-)

    If you're not careful, this Need For Speed will become a Hobby.

    Paul

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