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Using VMWare Workstation fullscreen in Windows 10 is great, since Microsoft finally added virtual desktops. Just put the cursor on the toolbar at the top of the screen (to send keyboard input to the host) and press Ctrl+Win+Left/Right to quickly switch between VMs or host desktop.

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What's the i/o latency (clicks, typing, etc.) on linux VMs in W10? Is it a native VM?

Two years ago I was using VMware in W7, but ended up dual booting Linux since the lag was so annoying.

I never had any problems on hosts with VT-x.

The VM is native on the Windows machine and there's zero latency. Not that I've ever detected, anyway. I've been using this setup for 5 years.

I suspect it helps to remove shitty window managers like Unity or Gnome3 and go to something more basic like xfce. I just set up an example Ubuntu VM today. Unity is annoyingly laggy. My primary VM with xfce is fine.

Is VMWare easier than Virtualbox in sharing files between guest and host? I can never get Shared Folders to work on Virtuabox, and end up configuring Samba.

I've found that Samba is better than the shared folders feature because it understands Linux file permissions better. Also Samba is a more transferrable skill and will work the same way if I switch to another virtualization product.

Cool, that was always my problem with VirtualBox, namely I could not minimize it the way I wanted.

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