VirtualBox is a very powerful virtualization technology developed by Sun Microsystems.
VirtualBox is opensource and free software targeted at almost all the popular operating systems. VirtualBox is can be run on Windows, Linux , Macintosh. There is a host operating systems. As is true with most of the open source projects , VirtualBox is a community project. What is more Sun Microsystems itself is involved in this project so this software is bound to be a quality product.
In fact , VirtualBox has already become very popular more than 5 million copies have already been downloaded. VirtualBox installs itself in a meagre 30 mb disk space and the memory requirement is around 512 mb. This virtualization technology is based on virtual machines so the actual size will depend on the OS you want to host on VirtualBox. In fact, most of the operating systems are several mb in size today so a typical VirtualBox solution will cost around 500MB-2GB in disk space.
VirtualBox runs on many Windows flavours like Windows Vista, Windows XP etc. Since VirtualBox is open source you can download binaries from the site and rebuild it to suit your software platform. What is more exciting is that VirtualBox can be translated to other languages.This technology is really amazing. Being free does not mean that it lacks the features found on the professional virtualization softwares like Microsoft Virtual PC. VirtualBox boasts of some of the features found only on its closed source cousins like Remote Display Protocol (RDP) Server which allows you to connect to a remote machine using RDP client. VirtualBox also includes a virtual USB controller which allows you to access physical USB devices on the virtual machine.
Considering the features found on the VirtualBox one can easily conclude that it can revolutionize the way we see virtualization.
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