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Oracle Virtualbox is pretty good, and free for personal use. They also make patches available for their Oracle Linux kernel - the UEK, and in a better format than RedHat.


They are aggressive about the "personal use" thing. I used to work for an ISP. Apparently our customers would download Virtualbox, Oracle would pull the IPs out of their logs, find us, and then email us and ask us to buy a license. (More threatening than asking nicely, IIRC.) We informed them that we're an ISP and those IP addresses are our customers', not our office. And no, we didn't give them the contact information of our customers.

I wonder how many of their sales reps have gone after Spectrum and Comcast since the whole work from home thing started.




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