VirtualBox

Oracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products. VirtualBox is installed on an existing host operating system as an application; this host application allows additional guest operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, to be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment.

The core package is free software released under GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). This is the fully featured package, excluding some proprietary components not available under GPLv2.

VirtualBox uses its own format for storage containers - Virtual Disk Image (VDI). VirtualBox also supports other well-known storage formats[30] such as VMDK (used in particular by VMware) as well as the VHD format used by Microsoft.

The TWiki-VM can be run in VirtualBox.

Links:

• Wikipedia:VirtualBox - article on Wikipedia
• https://www.virtualbox.org/ - official website
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html - download

-- Contributors: PeterThoeny - 2012-02-01

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