[janstice]

For example, if someone installs the wrong version of Oracle Java on a VM in our farm, the licencing cost is seven figures as they want to charge per core that it could conceivably run on - this would be career-limiting for a number of people at once.

[kstrauser]

Or VirtualBox’s extensions which make it usable. Those are free to download but could make you an audit target.

[janstice]

Or even Docker Desktop, which is a bunch of $$ that no-one expects (and I think Microsoft is still recommending in the WSL docs).

[josefx]

Is there still a reason to use VirtualBox?