I have always used VirtualBox for my VM needs. As a product, I am happy with it.
But VirtualBox is in a class of technologies (MySQL, ZFS, Solaris, Java(?) ) that I like and have good associations with and am willing to use (Java is BARELY on this list) which are owned by Oracle, who I now must treat as patent trolls rather than an honorable technology company. I don't want to feed the trolls, so I want to get away from Oracle products to the extent I can.
I'm not the admin for most of the environments I'm in, so I can't say "Linux not Solaris" on our E4500 and I can't say "PostGRE or MariaDB not MySQL" for the database, but I can choose the VM I run my stuff on.
I use Win7 and Linux, with my Windows boxes being my good machines right now. So, if I need to run a second Windows or FreeBSD on my desktop virtually, what should I use?
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