VirtualBox is easy to install, takes a smaller amount of resources, and is many people’s first choice. VirtualBox offers you an unlimited number of snapshots. With VMWare player, instead, you have to wait for the company to release an update to fix the bugs. Being open-source means that recent releases are sometimes a bit buggy, but also that they typically get fixed relatively quickly. VirtualBox truly has a lot of support because it's open-source and free. While VMWare functions on Windows and Linux, not Mac, VirtualBox works with Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. With VirtualBox, it’s also possible to share your clipboard between the virtualized and host operating system. This product is a Type 2 hypervisor, so it’s a virtualization host software that runs on an already established operating system as an application. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop, and embedded use. This can potentially save you quite a bit of money by running multiple servers virtually on one computer. One of the most used instances of this is to test software or applications in a different environment, rather than on a different computer. Operating system virtualization allows your computer’s hardware to run many operating system images simultaneously. This is a virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Oracle Corporation now develops the software package and titles it Oracle VM VirtualBox.

VirtualBox has supported Open Virtualization Format (OVF) since version 2.2.0 (April 2009). It supports Windows, Linux, Macintosh, Sun Solaris, and FreeBSD.

VirtualBox is an extremely feature rich, high-performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. Developed initially by Innotek GmbH, it was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, which was, in turn, acquired by Oracle in 2010.

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