Re: Finally took the plunge with 18.04 last night..
Eh?
Vmware workstation 12. Download as fast your internet will allow. Install I think is 4 lines of text might have been 5.
Time to create is about five minutes of a few sliding scales and some numbers then next next. Then depending on your install it takes as long as it did with a disk. For windows 7 I think mine took about 20 minutes to go through the normal install wizard.
Once setup install time is a double click and watch it load, maybe twenty seconds for windows 7. This is on Ubuntu on my dell XPS 13.
Sounds like you had a bad experience but VMWare workstation 12 also passes through 3D graphics, much better than virtualbox.