VirtualBox 5.1.30 released
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This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
* GUI: translation updates
* GUI: Fixed double mouse cursor when using mouse integration without Guest Additions, actually a Qt 5.6 bug fixed with QT 5.6.3 (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15610)
* Solaris hosts: allow increasing MTU size for host-only adapter to 9706 bytes to support jumbo frames
* Linux hosts: glibc 2.26 compile fix
* Windows Additions: 3D related crash fix (bugs #17082, #17092)
That said, the UI polish isn't as nice or intuitive as VirtualBox.
Why do people use VMware workstation over virtualbox?
You can of course install whatever remote server you want inside the VM but aside from that you can connect to a VM directly using VRDP.
But you can also manager your entire virtualbox instance using RemoteBox ( http://remotebox.knobgoblin.org.uk/about.cgi ) or from a web GUI using phpVirtualBox ( https://sourceforge.net/p/phpvirtualbox/wiki/Home/ ).
I'm sure there are other options as well.
I have played with both of the alternate solutions you have shared. These are not perfect, unlike what VMware Workstation provides (as it has, for long period of time).
With VMware Workstation that feature is super fast. The product has a much better experience overall.
Unfortunately, I didn't have much luck with Vagrant's VMware plugin (paid) and couldn't realistic make the switch.
It seems using each OS's native virtualization (Hyper-V, xhyve, KVM) is the way to go, but that means we have to maintain separate vagrant boxes, which we don't have to with VMware/VirtualBox since they work on Linux/OSX/Windows.
The way it works is someone posts a link. If enough people for whatever reasons of their own decide to upvote that link, it makes it to the front page.
There's never any one justification or reason why something gets voted up. Everyone has their own reasons. One person may upvote because they find it interesting, another because they like it, another because they agree with it, another because they think it's important, another because they want others to know about it, etc. It's a never-ending popularity contest.
Software releases get posted here pretty regularly, and if they're popular enough or interesting enough to the segment of HN readership that happens to be online at the time they get voted up. Period. No explanations given or required.