Lovely piece of software, but if you turn off the lights and say “Extension Pack” 3 times, an Oracle lawyer climbs out of the screen and hits you with an audit.
I needed a local VM ony Mac recently, but luckily I found Lima via this blog post [0].<p>So glad Lima works so well and I don't have to worry about running afoul of Oracle's extension pack licensing.<p>[0] <a href="https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/07/10/lima--a-nice-way-to-run-linux-vms-on-mac/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/07/10/lima--a-nice-way-to-run-linu...</a>
I used to use virtual box simply because it was free and convenient, but I recently switched to KVM + libvirtd and holy smokes, the vms are running much faster,<p>A lot of my work is CPU bound on my hobby project (<a href="https://atomictessellator.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://atomictessellator.com</a>) and I have noticed a good 20-40% speed up, when you’re doing 10s thousands simulations a day, that’s a big difference.<p>Sorry virtual box, you’ll always have a fond place in my memory, but it’s time to retire you :)
I was shocked by the performance hit of virtual box. Did never think that it would be such a big difference using qemu, which is way faster:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq849CpGd88">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq849CpGd88</a>