For those folks, it comes highly recommended. Oracle supporters, IT professionals, developers, and anyone else who likes to play around with open-source software will almost certainly love using VirtualBox. If VirtualBox ever hopes to expand its reach beyond its ideal type of users, a good place to begin would be to improve documentation in this regard.Īs things stand, the installation process, depending on your skill level, could quickly feel like an unwelcoming trip to Wonderland. OIT recommends using VMware Fusion as your PC emulator in order to run the CASIM Space Survey on your Mac.

See VMware Fusion system requirements for details. Fusion uses Apple Metal graphics technology to render 3D hardware-accelerated graphics to virtual machines on compatible Mac systems. We have found VMware Fusion to be the easier of the two products to install, but does require that you create an account in. For Windows and Linux guests Fusion provides OpenGL 4.1 capabilities. Better still, the language used to explain any recommended settings should be expanded.įinally, while VirtualBox supports a large number of operating systems (and versions), any assistance it provides in finding those systems to download, especially the older ones, is mostly lacking. For Windows VMs Fusion now supports DirectX 11 (with Shader Model 5.0) and earlier. We take a comprehensive look at both, and compare how they perform to each other, and to the free VirtualBox, with benchmarks examining overall processing power, graphics performance, and real-world tests like battery life and video encoding. Specifically, VirtualBox could do a better job of explaining the importance of each step in the process. With the recent launch of Parallels 10 and Fusion 7, consumers are once again left wondering which virtualization platform to choose for their Mac. Overall, I found the installation process somewhat easy to perform, although some of the prompts didn't make sense. For virtual machines, I selected the latest version of Windows and Ubuntu Linux 64-bit. Installationįor this review, I installed VirtualBox 6.1.2 on my 2018 MacBook Pro. On a positive note, VirtualBox 6.1, which arrived in early January, has improved the interface greatly, however.

This rough design of VirtualBox itself makes it look older and less crisp than any other app on your Mac.

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