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Best Virtual Machine Application: VirtualBox


Earlier last week we asked you to share your favorite virtual machine application, and then highlighted the five most popular picks. Now we're back to highlight your favorite.

VirtualBox, with a pleasing free-as-in-beer pricetag and a slew of features, led the pack with a mighty 50% of the vote. VMware followed close behind with a solid second place (30%). Popular cross-platform—but best known for their Mac software—solution Parallels pulled in 12%, followed by Windows Virtual PC (4%), and QEMU (2%).

Check out the results in graph form by clicking on the image below.

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