Which VirtualBox repo to use?

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I have been using VirtualBox for a long while. Looking at what rpms are available I see:

$ dnf list '*VirtualBox*'
Last metadata expiration check: 19 days, 23:03:27 ago on Thu Mar 15 14:29:34 2018.
Installed Packages
VirtualBox-5.2.x86_64                      5.2.8_121009_fedora26-1            @virtualbox
Available Packages
VirtualBox.x86_64                          5.2.6-2.fc26                       rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-5.1.x86_64                      5.1.34_121010_fedora26-1           virtualbox
VirtualBox-devel.i686                      5.2.6-2.fc26                       rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-devel.x86_64                    5.2.6-2.fc26                       rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-guest-additions.x86_64          5.2.6-2.fc26                       rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-kmodsrc.x86_64                  5.1.22-1.fc26                      rpmfusion-free
VirtualBox-kmodsrc.noarch                  5.2.6-2.fc26                       rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-server.x86_64                   5.2.6-2.fc26                       rpmfusion-free-updates
VirtualBox-webservice.x86_64               5.2.6-2.fc26                       rpmfusion-free-updates
akmod-VirtualBox.x86_64                    5.2.6-2.fc26                       rpmfusion-free-updates
kmod-VirtualBox.x86_64                     5.2.6-2.fc26                       rpmfusion-free-updates
python-VirtualBox.x86_64                   5.2.6-2.fc26                       rpmfusion-free-updates

Which repo [virtualbox (Oracle) or rpmfusion] should one use?
Is Oracle simply a more up-to-date repo? Does rpmfusion packages actually fetch
the Oracle rpm, or is rpmfusion a separate, full build?

The size difference is significant:
	rpmfusion	VirtualBox-5.2.8-2.fc26.x86_64.rpm			 8.1MB
	virtualbox	VirtualBox-5.2-5.2.8_121009_fedora26-1.x86_64.rpm	69  MB

If the two are different: if I change to use the rpmfusion repo, will the VMs be compatible?

TIA

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