VirtualBox

Oracle VM VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and Innotek VirtualBox) is a hypervisor for x86 computers from Oracle Corporation.

Description

VirtualBox may be installed on a number of host operating systems, including: Linux, OS X, Windows Vista, Solaris, and OpenSolaris.

There are also ports to FreeBSD and Genode.

It supports the creation and management of guest virtual machines running versions and derivations of Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2, Solaris, Haiku, OSx86 and others,[6] - and limited virtualization of OS X guests on Apple hardware.

For some guest operating systems, a "Guest Additions" package of device drivers and system applications is available which typically improves performance, especially of graphics.

History

Developed initially by Innotek GmbH, it was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 which was in turn acquired by Oracle in 2010.

See also

• Hypervisor
• Vagrant (software) - computer software that creates and configures virtual development environments.
• Virtual machine

External links

• Official website
• VirtualBox @ Wikipedia