Oracle kreeg VirtualBox in handen bij de overname van Sun. En Sun kreeg het zelf in handen bij de overname van het Duitse Innotek, dat VirtualPC voor OS/2 en Windows maakte. Innotek had een licentie ...

For the purposes of our tests and for limiting the scope of the review of both VirtualBox 3.20 and VMware Workstation 7.1, I decided to concentrate on Windows XP and Windows 7 64-bit and 32-bit ...

Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you.

Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you.

Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you.

After entering beta roughly three months ago, Oracle’s VM VirtualBox 5.0 virtualization software is now generally available, offering faster performance and better security.

VirtualBox is flexible enough to handle many types of 32-bit and 64-bit configurations. If you need to run a 32-bit version of XP in a 64-bit host, you can do that without any problems.

Desktop virtualization for pros For IT professionals, VMware Workstation and Oracle VirtualBox are the two leading options for creating and running VMs.

On the security side, VirtualBox now offers AES 128/256-bit encryption for all VM data, logs and configuration files as default, without affecting performance, Oracle said.

Learn More. Oracle VM VirtualBox continues to nip at the heels of undisputed virtualization leader VMware, resulting in a bounty of choice for application developers, IT pros and power users.