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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.
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.
VMDK. VMDK (short for Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format that describes containers for virtual hard disk drives to be used in virtual machines like VMware Workstation or VirtualBox. Initially developed by VMware for its proprietary [1] virtual appliance products, VMDK became an open format [2][dead link] with revision 5.0 in 2011, and is ...
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 in virtual machines ".
Virtual OpenBSD machine configuration in VirtualBox with live image file (6.3-Release-i386-bootonly.iso) The files on a live CD ISO image can be accessed in Microsoft Windows with a disk image emulator such as Daemon Tools, or in Unix variants by mounting a loop device. Later versions of Windows (i.e. Windows 8 and later), and software ...
VMware Workstation is developed and sold by VMware, Inc., owned by Broadcom Inc. since November 2023. With version 17.6 Workstation Pro became free of charge for personal use, and the free restricted VMware Workstation Player (known as VMware Player until VMware Workstation 12 in 2015) was dropped. Ready-made Linux VMs set up for different ...
Virtualization. In computing, virtualization (v12n) is a series of technologies that allows dividing of physical computing resources into a series of virtual machines, operating systems, processes or containers. [1] Virtualization began in the 1960s with IBM CP/CMS. [1] The control program CP provided each user with a simulated stand-alone ...
The virtual machine additions in older VPC versions and the virtual machine integration features in Windows Virtual PC contain precompact ISO images for the first step in supported guest systems. [13] Third-party products also use VHD file format. Oracle VirtualBox, part of Sun xVM line of Sun Microsystems supports VHD in