Looking for opinions from VirtualBox users

[mattspace]

I'm getting increasingly frustrated with Fusion Pro - primarily that their user forums seem to be doing some weird thing where everything I post goes to some sort of moderation afterlife, and never shows up, and there's no moderator contacts so I can't even find out if there a reason for it etc...

...but mostly because the prolific posters there keep talking about Fusion hosting macOS guests as deprecated, so I figured it might be worth investigating a jump to something that isn't at the whims of company policy, which presumably being opensource, is less of an issue for VirtualBox.

So, how invasive / safe is VirtualBox? I'm thinking in terms of how difficult it is to remove if it causes stability issues etc.

My only use case for virtual machines at the moment, is maintaining legacy Adobe workflows in OS X 10.6 Server.

 

[maflynn]

Sounds like you're on an Intel Mac which means you should be able to run it (not so for Arm Macs). From past experiences with VB, I found it much less polished then Fusion/Parallels and performance was horrible. From your use case, that doesn't seem to matter. I think Oracle does a horrible job with their open source products and personally if you could avoid it, then you should.

The best way to evaluate its usefulness is to try it, you have nothing to lose but time.