Alternatives to VirtualBox?

VirtualBox is ridiculously simple to set up and get virtual machines going. Shared folders, shared clipboard and much more are no issue.

But.

It eats resources. The installed virtual machines (VM) run relatively slow. What have you found to be feature comparable - and most importantly more resource-efficient - alternatives for running VMs under Linux?

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You can also run VirtualBox with KVM as a backend.
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  This has been mentioned a few times here. Didn’t know that. Thank you.

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