Ask HN: Which tools are you using for Virtual Machines?
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I guess it depends how you define "using".
Day to day I generally favour Parallels via Vagrant;
But I also use VMWare Fusion and Virtualbox semi-regularly via Packer to build vagrant base boxes (https://app.vagrantup.com/koalephant/)
Day to day I generally favour Parallels via Vagrant;
But I also use VMWare Fusion and Virtualbox semi-regularly via Packer to build vagrant base boxes (https://app.vagrantup.com/koalephant/)
I used VMWare Workstation until I noticed everyone was leaving VMWare, so I followed suit and switched to VirtualBox.
At work, I use a few different ones, but primarily VMWare and Hyper-V. At home, I don't use any.
Multipass.
At work I use Qemu for Windows with batch files to launch my VMs. I have hyper v enabled and Qemu performs quite well using the whp accelerator.
My workplace doesn't want to pay for a solution and the IT department is so paranoid about VirtualBox that they have a tool that periodically scans our laptop and automatically uninstalls it if it's detected.