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VirtualBox = a poor VmWare, full of bugs and incompatibilities.

Vagrant works pretty poorly with VMware, even with the paid plugin. So I use Virtualbox for Dev even though I have VMware installed too.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I also can't even justify using VMware with Vagrant anymore.

I pad for the VMware plugin and the support was awful. It's supported on a best effort basis.

The horrible VMware plugin is what's making us stick to VirtualBox, even though everybody hates it (shared folders and 3D acceleration being the worst areas).

3D acceleration on VMware Workstation 12.1 is awesome (60fps inside the VM in OpenGL) and it let's me use the VM as a full desktop without even noticing I'm on a VM. Shared folders performance is also 10x better than VirtualBox.

Unfortunately, I have to use vagrant for work and that means my VMware install is dormant... and vagrant's VMware plugin license was wasted money.

> I paid for the VMware plugin and the support was awful

I paid for the plugin early on, when it was Hashicorp's first monetization effort. Having good experiences with similar projects like Sidekiq Pro, I was quite surprised when an issue I ran into was summarily dismissed. I can't imagine what it's like post-funding.

For people who want to verify this claim, bugtracker is here: https://www.virtualbox.org/report

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