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Oracle VirtualBox
Apr 5, 2018
VMWare Workstation
Oct 7, 2017
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Oracle VirtualBox

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Endi Sukaj
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Can do snapshots

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VirtualBox is capable of taking whole-system snapshots and writing them to a backing file.
Endi Sukaj
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Free, mostly open source and cross-platform

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VirtualBox is available for free with source code available here. A "VirtualBox Extension Pack" that includes virtual USB 2.0, VirtualBox RDP & PXE boot support is available only under a commercial license. VirtualBox is available on Windows, Linux, OSX and Solaris.
Endi Sukaj
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Works with Vagrant

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Works with Vagrant, an awesome tool for managing and deploying virtual machine images.
Ricardo Rodrigues
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Inferior performance 

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Apart from second-class performance in virtualization, there are some visual glitches with Windows 8.1 on Mavericks.
Endi Sukaj
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Confusing interface and lacking usability features 

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VirtualBox might be a bit confusing for beginners - it requires an understanding of a lot more technical details than other VMs.
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VMWare Workstation

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Endi Sukaj
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Works with Vagrant

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Works with Vagrant, an awesome tool for managing and deploying virtual machine images.
Endi Sukaj
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Can do snapshots

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Workstation is capable of taking whole-system snapshots and writing them to a backing file.
Endi Sukaj
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No snapshotting support in the free version

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