I am (unfortunately) using Windows, and for secuity I have a virtual machine with a VPN and an anti-virus that I scan any files I download (overkill, I know, but better be safe than sorry), I also log into some websites that may have worse security on there with my VPN, for all of this I use Virtualbox since it is open source, however, it is unfortunately very slow because the 3D acceleration and graphics implementation are very old and slow, every animation is very choppy and it is not very nice to use
Virtualbox also doesnt support core isolation, which is a security feature that I would like to use
Therefore, I am wondering, with VMWare Workstation Pro now being free (and owned by Broadcom), is it bad for privacy? I have read that it only phones home for updates, but I cant verify that…
Thats a good idea, but I forgot to mention that I also use a Linux server VM, I dont think that works on HyperV, I also only have Windows 11 Home so I cant try it
Hmm thats good, still though I would have to enable hyperV even if I did upgrade to Pro ,(dont really want to spend more money on Windows) I believe that can decrease gaming performance, so I would still rather use the others sadly
Also, am I dumb for maybe trusting VmWare and Oracle more than Microsoft lol
It depends on if you care enough about VMWare being another attack vector on your system. AFAIK, any perf hit you might have between HyperV and VMWare Workstation is negligible, but I haven’t checked benchmarks so I would do some research on that. I don’t think you are any worse off privacy wise between the two, but if you want to be safe you could use DNS filtering on your network to reduce any potential telemetry coming from either VM software.
Thank you Do you think there are any security or privacy improvements or degradations if I were to switch from Virtualbox to VMWare? Since VirtualBox is open source while VmWare is proprietary
