On the contrary, i find it extremely weird that everybody sticks with the Vmwarez products for home use. People are making virtual machines for storage, which boot from the locked down vmwarez FS, then export that over less-than-optimal transport protocols like NFS back to the host to have other machines boot from the COW FS, albeit without direct access to the COW capabilities you would have natively. The kernels these products run have poor hardware support and are all but efficient. The software that runs on this host kernel is very hard to extend, outdated and all but updatable by the user.
So, the upside to this may be that you gain some experience with this point-and-click enterprise product.
there is a reason most stick to vmware...
they might not be as open as kvm/others but: THEY JUST WORK.
I remember playing with esx years ago on a Dell 2600? it was a dual 604 tower that was before VT, or VT-IO even before x64 I think. (not sure about the last one!)
vmware could do things better, sure.
but any VM works, and pretty fast considering the tech behind it!
what they do they do well.
free is nice for home users too.
also keep in mind anyone with a VM host isnt a consumer, probably not even a "prosumer" but moth than likely a computer something...
most people are bias to what they are comfortable with and VM ware still dominates enterprise and SMB