(GUI front end tools are also available) About VirtualBox User friendly. It has lot of options and can configured via command line. In terms of customization, VirtualBox is unbeatable QEMU is more of a development tool for OS kernel engineers. Like Photoshop or Adobe XD to open files the designer sends to me, or my digital-signature program for the yearly government fiscal statements. VMWare user interface is more friendly when compared with VirtualBox. I usually run windows bare metal when needing the full video performance like for gaming (although I didn’t need to do that for about two years now), or when in encounter issues forwarding peripherals and VM when needing a Windows-only program for work. Run operating systems for any machine, on any supported architecture User-mode emulation. Designed for small to mid sized businesses, it is an open-source virtualizer and emulator that helps with peripherals, user space and more. The advantage of running the VM from bare metal SSD is that there is no speed penalty for disk access.

Windows doesn’t protest in being presented with different hardware in VM and bare-metal mode. Now I can launch my Windows instance from GRUB or as a VM from Linux.

Instead of creating a virtual drive for a Windows guest VM, I used pass-through of a real partition that already has Windows installed. Now here comes a neat trick I tried and was rewarded with even more speed and flexibility: I was flabbergasted to see I can run the machine in seamless full-screen mode and I couldn’t tell the difference. But I just tested a Windows 10 on my virt-manager and it’s almost near to a bare-metal system.

Virtualbox vs vmware vs qemu