VirtualBox is a general-purpose hosted hypervisor for running multiple operating systems on a single computer. It targets desktop, laptop, server and development use.
Virtual machines can be assigned configurable processors, memory, storage, graphics and network hardware. VirtualBox supports a broad range of guest operating systems and provides tools for cloning, importing, exporting and organising virtual machines.
Guest Additions improve integration between the host and guest with features such as shared folders, clipboard sharing, automatic display resizing and accelerated graphics. VirtualBox 7.2 also extends Arm virtualization support and improves graphics and storage capabilities.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Runs multiple guest operating systems in isolated virtual machines on a single host.
- Configurable virtual CPUs, memory, graphics, storage controllers, networking, audio and USB hardware.
- Guest Additions provide shared folders, shared clipboard, drag and drop, automatic display resizing and improved graphics integration.
- Supports snapshots with branched snapshot trees for saving and restoring virtual machine states.
- Clones complete or linked virtual machines and imports and exports virtual appliances using OVF and OVA.
- Flexible networking includes NAT, bridged, host-only and internal network configurations.
- Supports virtual SATA, SCSI, SAS and NVMe storage controllers together with virtual optical media and iSCSI storage.
- Provides 3D graphics acceleration and, on supported Linux hosts, hardware video decoding acceleration.
- Remote display support allows virtual machines to be accessed without using their local console window.
- Command-line tools and APIs support automation and headless virtual machine operation.
Website: www.virtualbox.org
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Developer: Oracle Corporation
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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Related Software
| Virtualization Tools | |
|---|---|
| VirtualBox | Powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization software |
| Quickemu | Wrapper for QEMU that automatically “does the right thing” |
| QEMU | Machine emulator and virtualizer |
| Multipass | Lightweight virtual machine manager |
| Boxes | View, access, and manage remote and virtual systems |
| virt-manager | Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt |
| Incus | Secure and powerful system container and virtual machine manager |
| Quickgui | Gaphical user interface for the Quickemu virtual machine manager. |
| Kudu | Create and manage QEMU virtual machines from the terminal |
| Cockpit Machines | Web interface for managing virtual machines |
| Cassowary | Run Windows virtual machine on Linux |
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