Comment by Retr0id
1 day ago
> VirtualBox 7.2.4 shipped with a regression that causes high CPU usage on idle guests. What are the odds.
I have such a love/hate relationship with VirtualBox. It's so useful but so buggy. My current installation has a bug that causes high network latency, but I'm afraid to upgrade in case it introduces new, worse bugs.
VMware is a million times better, but it is also Proprietary™
As VMWare Workstation is now free on Linux and Windows, and allows you to create and rollback snapshots. Why not use it even if proprietary?
It's a good question and I'm pretty on the fence about it, and next time I'm reinstalling things I might switch.
I do believe in the whole RMS "respects the user's freedoms" spiel, so all things being equal I prefer FOSS, even if it's worse - but there are limits.
And OSX. Or the functionality is free, but the name of the client might be different