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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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Alan K.

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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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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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