best linux distro for vmware workstation

I would not recommend this to someone who wanted Desktop virtualization, I would recommend Fedora. Moreover, you can get Steve Kemp's Xen tools as well as the dozen or so that I wrote.

Shorewall, which is wildly popular in the Xen community for routed configurations is very easy to use on a Debian based system.

Apt is notorious for resolving dependencies very well, letting you search for libraries that you need to compile new tools for Xen (or Xen itself from source, which I recommend).

Debian and Ubuntu use the apt package manager.

Do not use the 'network-bridge' script that comes with Xen on a production box, you may need to re-start Xend, which would break all networking (dom-0 and guests) One file, easy syntax, easy to have scripts do it for you if need be.

Setting up complex networking (bridges, bonded devices, etc) is simple.

There is no strategy with certain safety, just differing levels of risk.I highly recommend Debian or Ubuntu (server) for domain-0.

Accept the inherit danger in downloading random files from sketchy parts of the internet/deep web/etc.

Cease use of a VM when it is no longer supported by the company/community behind it.

But even in the best of cases, there may be a 0-day in the VM that neither the user nor the maintainer knows about. Therefore, on a long enough timeline and with continued use, one of the two will happen and a VM escape will increase in probability until it happens. It can become less rare as systems fall out of date either due to user negligence or a software product losing support from it's manufacturer. VM escape is relatively rare on well maintained systems (software kept up to date). What is the probability of this to happen?

Using VirtualBox is it possible for VM escape to happen while using Whonix Gateway to connect to TOR and then use another VM with, let's say, Ubuntu (that uses Whonix instead of directly using the host's internet access) as my workstation?

Best linux distro for vmware workstation