Parallels and VMware may have the more popular virtualization solutions, but Oracle's free VirtualBox solution may be a useful alternative for those who need to run other operating systems on ...

Oracle Corp. is rolling out a major update to its free open-source virtualization platform, Oracle VM VirtualBox. Announced today, Oracle VM VirtualBox 7 is a cross-platform application that ...

Although VMware Workstation and VirtualBox can run a couple of virtual machines (including nested virtualization setups) when paired with the right hardware, the underlying operating system can ...

2D hardware video acceleration: VirtualBox has always been somewhat ahead of the curve in multimedia support, and version 3.1 introduces support for Windows VMs to use hardware acceleration.

VirtualBox appears to be a fairly mature virtualization platform that runs on 32-bit Linux and Windows hosts.

VirtualBox is a free and open source, cross-platform virtualization utility that works on Windows, Mac, Linux, and other operating systems. Install VirtualBox on your computer and you can use it ...

Version 3.1 of Sun's VirtualBox hosted virtualization software gains new features such as Teleportation, snapshots, and 2D acceleration ...

VirtualBox 4.3 now supports touch in its virtual machines, bringing the venerable application up to date technology-wise. Mostly.

Understanding Virtualization Technology Virtual PC and other virtualization tools, such as VMWare and Oracle's VirtualBox, enable you to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on one machine.

VMware Workstation 11 has the edge in performance and polish, while VirtualBox 2.3.20 leads in platform support and price.

The second issue caused me some grief, Virtualbox could only create 32 bit guests with software-based virtualization and would not open existing 64 bit VM images.

If you're fond of trying out multiple operating systems without the hassle, you're probably using virtualization regularly.