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ova. Website. www.dmtf.org /standards /ovf. Open Virtualization Format (OVF) is an open standard for packaging and distributing virtual appliances or, more generally, software to be run in virtual machines. The standard describes an "open, secure, portable, efficient and extensible format for the packaging and distribution of software to be run ...
VirtualBox. Oracle VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and InnoTek VirtualBox) is a hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle Corporation. VirtualBox was originally created by InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, which was in turn acquired by Oracle in 2010.
A virtual appliance is a pre-configured virtual machine image, ready to run on a hypervisor; virtual appliances are a subset of the broader class of software appliances. Installation of a software appliance on a virtual machine and packaging that into an image creates a virtual appliance. Like software appliances, virtual appliances are ...
Website. www.vmware.com /products /workstation-player.html. VMware Workstation Player, formerly VMware Player, is a discontinued virtualization software package for x64 computers running Microsoft Windows or Linux, supplied free of charge by VMware, Inc. [3] VMware Player could run existing virtual appliances and create its own virtual machines ...
Comparison of platform virtualization software. Platform virtualization software, specifically emulators and hypervisors, are software packages that emulate the whole physical computer machine, often providing multiple virtual machines on one physical platform. The table below compares basic information about platform virtualization hypervisors.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Windows: GPLv2: VirtualBox: 6.1.26 July 28, 2021: ... 4.7 for Windows and Linux, 1.7 for others March 29 ...
Windows Virtual PC entered public beta testing on April 30, 2009, [21] and was released alongside Windows 7 on July 22, 2009. [22] Windows Virtual PC is available free of charge for certain editions of Windows 7, [3] either pre-installed by OEMs or via download from the Microsoft website. [20] Unlike its predecessors, it supports only Windows 7 ...
qcow is a file format for disk image files used by QEMU, a hosted virtual machine monitor. [1] It stands for "QEMU Copy On Write " and uses a disk storage optimization strategy that delays allocation of storage until it is actually needed. Files in qcow format can contain a variety of disk images which are generally associated with specific ...