Virtual Box 5.1

With Oracle's rocky reputation around open source, I'm surprised that VirutalBox is still going strong and under active development. There doesn't seem to be any kind of commercial "enterprise version" that they license for big bucks... what is their incentive for keeping this thing going?

If you&#x27;re using Vagrant, stick to 5.0.24 until this issue is closed: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mitchellh&#x2F;vagrant&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7411" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mitchellh&#x2F;vagrant&#x2F;issues&#x2F;7411</a>

There&#x27;s some negativity around this product on this thread, but honestly I&#x27;m really glad Virtual Box is around and under active development.<p>I have both an active linux and os x env for dev and I use virtual box to manage and switch between. It&#x27;s been super useful, very reliable, fast enough, and, btw, it&#x27;s free.

I&#x27;m not sure why, but my Ubuntu image with unity always thinks it should run at 10fps. I had to hard set the frame rate in compizConfig at 60 fps to get it to run smoothly.<p>Putting it here because it took me quite a while to figure out why it was 3D accelerated but still so slow.

Anyone tested to see if the network and disk IO is actually any faster than before? We found it _very_ slow in the past compared to VMWare Fusion on OSX.

&quot;... better support for Python 3&quot;. Why does VB need to better support a specific executable, namely python 3? Anyone have more technical details on this?

Has anyone done performance tests with different versions of VirtualBox? I often see entries in the changelog relating to &quot;significantly improved performance&quot;.

I don&#x27;t see any security-related fixes. Is VBox that solid or am I missing something? I remember also looking at previous versions and not finding much...

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Changelog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.virtualbox.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Changelog</a>

My understanding is that on Windows, VirtualBox still can&#x27;t run along Docker For Windows, because DFW needs Hyper-V and VBox is incompatible. Is this still the case? I don&#x27;t ask much of my VMs, but desktop Ubuntu guests under Hyper-V are very clunky.

Are any modern alternatives to VMWare player and Oracle VirtualBox for running a Linux guest OS (with GUI) on a Windows desktop host?