VirtualBox: Commercial-grade Open Source virtualization

Filed in archive Linux For Windows Users by Rom Feria on January 22, 2007

German company, Innotek, releases an Open Source edition of their product, VirtualBox, "a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use". I have written several entries about various virtualization technologies available on Linux already but I couldn't pass up on this one. Here's an Ubuntu Geek tutorial on how to use VirtualBox in Edgy Eft.

[image from VirtualBox.org]

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VirtualBox is a simple easy to use virtualization tool. With support for most common Intel clients such as Windows XP, Vista (note issue about manually installing NIC drivers, Solaris and many versions of Linux. The windows interface is quick to load a...