However I strongly believe that you should use what works for you. I am not elaborating all the differences here. Hyper-V will undoubtedly offer you better performance and resource maintenance, but you should think again before embracing it if you frequently switch platforms. VMware Workstation / Fusion / Player and vSphere have always worked very well for me. The performance and resource maintenance on Oracle VirtualBox isn’t bad either.

It does not only take care of auto start, but also auto suspends your VM(s) on shutdown.ĭon't really ask me as I'm a long time VMware user that even has a few VMware related products and is an active user moderator at their forums.

The feature is marked as deprecated but they may be adding a new way to auto-start VMs in a future version.Įven if it doesn't come back, I have a product for that (Vimarun, you can find it via the link in my footer) written in Delphi of course 😉. VMWare Workstation Pro took out the shared VM / auto-start feature in 16.0 but added it back for 16.1 after a ton of complaints.

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