(You can experiment if you have less than 16 Gb, but you might find the experience frustrating.) The easiest virtual machine manager to use is probably VirtualBox. If you have at least 16 Gb RAM (preferably more), you can experiment yourself with VMs. Would love to hear from you regarding this matter.

What has worked well for you folks, what hasn’t worked well? See below for some options that I have found. I've been having non-stop issues with updates lately though anyway.ĭear fellow Mac users, What’s your favourite hypervisor for a macOS host? I’m currently pondering what hypervisor to use and would appreciate some input from other Mac users. Workstation Player VMware Workstation is a multiple operating system handler to easily evaluate the any other type of new operating systems. Regretfully, I have run into too many problems with the latest upgrade of PopOS and am going to switch back to vanilla Ubuntuĭid they fix the Virtualbox issue? Even after two weeks I wasn't getting a new version so had to download the deb file from. All in all, VirtualBox gives support to more host operating systems. The VMware Workstation and VMware Player can only support Windows and Linux if you need to use it on a Mac device, you’ll need to get VMware Fusion. Parallels is great (and fast), but you might be able to do the same thing with virtualBox for free. VMware: Compared to VirtualBox, the compatibility of VMware is a little bit limited. I checked that I see VirtualBox 7 is out!

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