VM recommendations please

[treesurf]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. It's much appreciated.

[BigCityCat]

I have never used anything other than virtualbox. I like it alot and I use win7, but I have a dual core processors and I am getting very high cpu spikes. I have googled it. I have seen no real solutions and I see that it is an issue for a lot of people a cross platforms. I have used sevral versions including the latest. All have the same problem.

[perspectoff]

VMWare is a bit more powerful, but with a complexity price. For real power users with niche needs, it does more.

But Virtualbox is elegant, simple, nice, and useful for 95% of needs. It's better for beginners.