May 20, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. PT On May 2 nd of 2008 during its CommunityOne event, and concurrent with the initial release of OpenSolaris 2008.05, Sun released version 1.6 of xVM VirtualBox as a free ...

Virtualization is a buzzword that's been making its way around the corporate IT circles for a few years. On paper, virtualization sounds great—you can make full use of those unused CPU cycles, ...

If you need to run Windows inside OS X, you have three options: VirtualBox, VMware, and Parallels. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses, and different use cases where one’s better than another.

Our Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion shootout took a deep dive into the two most successful commercial virtualization products for the Mac, but many of you had questions about VirtualBox, the free ...

This past summer, I posted a primer to consumer virtualization with the promise of following-up with in-depth looks at the various hypervisors available on the consumer side. It’s taken me a while, I ...

VirtualBox is my go-to virtual machine technology. Not only is it free to use, but it’s also very powerful and makes it easy to create VMs for all types of hosts — from Linux, macOS, Windows and more.

Having a virtual machine on-hand can be useful for a variety of purposes, such as testing software or tweaks in a sandboxed environment that is separate from your primary operating system. A virtual ...

Nearly four years after its last major release, VirtualBox 7.0 arrives with a… host of new features. Chief among them are Windows 11 support via TPM, EFI Secure Boot support, full encryption for ...

How to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on a GUI-less Ubuntu server host Your email has been sent The VirtualBox Guest Additions gives a performance boost and extra ...