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Out of curiosity, have you tried anything other than VirtualBox (e.g. VMware Fusion)?

I was happy with VirtualBox's (on OS X) performance until I bought VMware Fusion. I didn't do any benchmarks so I don't have numbers to back up my claim but it definitely "felt" much faster than VirtualBox.

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I never tried VMF so it may be faster, sure. The thing about VBox is, like I wrote, features. VBox is basically a full-featured Virtualization-Suite, has multiple UIs and an API. It is also available on Win7,8,10/macOS/Linux and Solaris.

You may add: excellent documentation and friendly support (board, irc, list).

If I'll ever have to switch, I'd first need feature-parity.

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