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2015 MBP, no problems either

2017, VMware fusion causes mine to constantly freeze.

Well, i think you’ve identified the problem. I consider vmware fusion skin to a virus and would delete it the moment my employer allowed.

It still has the most stable implementation for Linux development when compared to VirtualBox or Parallels. Docker for Mac is great for user space dev, but I haven’t figured out how to kernel debug yet.

Two recent showstoppers, when I tried to switch from Fusion:

The shared folder driver for VB will panic a Linux guest if a shared folder is accessed from a multithreaded compilation.

The shared folder driver for Parallels will panic a Linux guest if you load a kernel module from a shared folder.

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