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What is Virtual Box...?

VirtualBox is ASCII text file software package for virtualizing the x86 computing design. It acts as a hypervisor, making a VM (virtual machine) wherever the user will run another OS (operating system).

The software system wherever VirtualBox runs is named the "host" OS. The software system running within the VM is named the "guest" OS. VirtualBox supports Windows, Linux, or macOS as its host OS.

When configuring a virtual machine, the user will specify what number C.P.U. cores, and the way abundant RAM and disc space ought to be dedicated to the VM. once the VM is running, it are often "paused." System execution is frozen at that moment in time, and also the user will resume mistreatment it later.


History


VirtualBox was originally developed by Innotek GmbH, and discharged on Gregorian calendar month seventeen, 2007 as Associate in Nursing ASCII text file computer code package. the corporate was later purchased by Sun Microsystems.

On Gregorian calendar month twenty seven, 2010, Oracle Corporation purchased Sun, and took over development of VirtualBox.


Supported operating systems


  • Windows 10, 8, 7, XP, Vista, 2000, NT, and 98.
  • Linux distributions based on Linux kernel 2.4 and newer, including Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE, Mandriva/Mandrake, Fedora, RHEL, and Arch Linux.
  • Solaris and OpenSolaris.
  • macOS X Server Leopard and Snow Leopard.
  • OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
  • MS-DOS.
  • OS/2.
  • QNX.
  • BeOS R5.
  • Haiku.
  • ReactOS.