The difference between VB and Veertu is that the latter is much less invasive (so less potential for screwups and problems with other invasive solutions like VMWare Fusion) and it's potentially much faster because it leverages the Apple subsystem. VB has a chequered record on OSX.
I like Veertu, but I'm a bit sad about the increasing level of fragmentation in the virtualization space. Where before you had a couple of products, you now have dozens of mostly incompatible ones. I have team-mates pushing for Hyper-V since they're all on Windows, I don't like VirtualBox and I find it more and more difficult to justify spending money on VmWare licenses, considering they are not significantly improving desktop products. I wish new players like Veertu offered better interoperability, i.e. export features as well as import - although I understand why that might not look as being in their best interest.
I've used it for about six months now. It was/is missing a few bells and whistles (like a good quality scripting API to enable something like Vagrant, which I talked with their team about doing), but overall it's extremely robust and the lack of kexts needed makes it an immediate winner despite the few gotchas.
There's actually a Vagrant plugin to use Veertu as a backend. You can find the underlying CLI that the plugin uses in /Applications/Veertu Desktop.app/Contents/SharedSupport/cli if you want to script it yourself.
I'm curious about that as well. I would love to get rid of Parallels (even despite my having recently upgraded to the Sierra-compatible version) because I find things to be too slow in general.
What video are you referring to?
I'm just finding a boot speed video when googling and I'm not sure if that really qualifies as a proper measurement of "fastest" when comparing products.
What old non-native version? I think you've mis-read this.
They appear to be moving to an open-core model and expanding feature sets beyond what was allowed within the restrictions of Apple's App Store sandboxing, to better compete with VMware Fusion and Parallels for paid users.
To support the transition for paid users, this is probably a free release as they work out payment methods, etc. They're moving to an open-core pricing model, which probably matches their previous strategy.
They've always been unclear when it comes to payment and features. Previous to this they had Business and Pro editions in the App Store and Pro was sold as an in-app purchase to a free version while Business was sold outright. Both cost the same and it was hard to compare the two...
If they want to sell the product later, you can bet they'll have clear Buy buttons.
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[ 6.4 ms ] story [ 177 ms ] threadI like Veertu, but I'm a bit sad about the increasing level of fragmentation in the virtualization space. Where before you had a couple of products, you now have dozens of mostly incompatible ones. I have team-mates pushing for Hyper-V since they're all on Windows, I don't like VirtualBox and I find it more and more difficult to justify spending money on VmWare licenses, considering they are not significantly improving desktop products. I wish new players like Veertu offered better interoperability, i.e. export features as well as import - although I understand why that might not look as being in their best interest.
Any pointers/reviews/etc.?
Qemu/kvm might be the fastest and works but is a hassle to configure for my web development.
[1] https://developer.apple.com/reference/hypervisor
They appear to be moving to an open-core model and expanding feature sets beyond what was allowed within the restrictions of Apple's App Store sandboxing, to better compete with VMware Fusion and Parallels for paid users.
They've always been unclear when it comes to payment and features. Previous to this they had Business and Pro editions in the App Store and Pro was sold as an in-app purchase to a free version while Business was sold outright. Both cost the same and it was hard to compare the two...
If they want to sell the product later, you can bet they'll have clear Buy buttons.
I wonder if they tried using Docker's library/approach:
https://github.com/docker/vpnkit