Oracle VM VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization software package, created by software company Innotek GmbH, purchased by Sun Microsystems, and now developed by Oracle Corporation as part of its family of virtualization products. Oracle VM VirtualBox is installed on an existing host operating system as an application; this host application allows additional guest operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, to be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment.
Supported host operating systems include Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Solaris, and OpenSolaris; there is also a port to FreeBSD. Supported guest operating systems include versions and derivations of Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2, Solaris and others. Since release 3.2.0, VirtualBox also allows limited virtualization of Mac OS X guests on Apple hardware.
According to 2010 surveys by LinuxJournal.com, and LifeHacker.com, VirtualBox was the most popular virtualization product with over 50% of the vote.
Since version 4.1, Windows guests on supported hardware can take advantage of the recently implemented WDDM driver included in the guest additions; this allows Windows Aero to be enabled along with Direct3D support. Macintosh computers with supported hardware can also enable these new features.
Featur :
- 64-bit guests (CPU virtualization extensions)
- NCQ support for SATA, SCSI and SAS raw disks and partitions
- Snapshots
- Seamless mode
- Clipboard
- Shared folders
- Special drivers and utilities to facilitate switching between systems
- Command line interaction (in addition to the GUI)
- Public API (Java, Python, SOAP, XPCOM) to control VM configuration and execution
- Nested paging for AMD-V and Intel VT (only for processors supporting SLAT and with SLAT enabled)
- Raw hard disk access – allows physical hard disk partitions on the host system to appear in the guest system
- VMware Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) format support – allows VirtualBox to exchange disk images with VMware
- Microsoft VHD support
- 3D virtualization (Limited support for OpenGL was added to v2.1, more support was added to v2.2, OpenGL 2.0 and Direct3D support was added in VirtualBox 3.0)
- SMP support (up to 32 virtual CPUs per virtual machine), since version 3.0
- Teleportation (aka Live Migration), since version 3.1
- 2D video acceleration, since version 3.1
- Since version 3.2
- Mac OS X Server guest support – experimental
- Memory ballooning
- RAM deduplication (Page Fusion) for Windows guests on 64-bit hosts
- CPU hot-plugging for Linux (hot-add and hot-remove) and certain Windows guests (hot-add only)
- Deleting snapshots while the VM is running
- Multi-monitor guest setups in the GUI, for Windows guests
- LSI Logic SAS controller emulation
- Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) video acceleration
- Run and control guest applications from the host – for automated software deployments
- Since version 4.0
- The PUEL/OSE separation was given up in favor of an open source base product and a closed source extension pack that can be installed on top of the base product. As part of this change, additional components of VirtualBox were made open source (installers, documentation, device drivers)
- Intel HD audio emulation
- Intel ICH9 chipset emulation
- A new VM storage scheme where all VM data is stored in one single folder to improve VM portability
- Several UI enhancements including a new look with VM preview and scale mode
- On 32-bit hosts, VMs can each use more than 1.5 GB of RAM
- In addition to OVF, the single file OVA format is supported
- CPU use and I/O bandwidth can be limited per VM
- Support for Apple DMG images (DVD)
- Multi-monitor guest setups for Linux/Solaris guests (previously Windows only)
- Resizing of VDI and VHD images
- Since version 4.1
- Windows Aero support (experimental)
- Guest virtual machine cloning
- [edit]The extension pack
- Some features require the installation of the closed-source "VirtualBox Extension Pack":
- Support for a virtual USB 2.0 controller (EHCI)
- VirtualBox RDP: support for proprietary remote connection protocol developed by Microsoft and Citrix.
- PXE boot for Intel cards
Link download
- VirtualBox-4.1.2-73507-Win.exe
- VirtualBox-3.1.6-59338-Win.rar
- VirtualBox 4.1.0.73009 Final.rar
- VirtualBox-3.1.0-55467-Win.exe
- VirtualBox-4.0.4-70112-Win.exe
- VirtualBox.3.2.4.r62431.Portable.rar
- VirtualBox-3.0.8-53140-Win.exe
- VirtualBox-4.0.8-71778
- virtualbox.4.1.2.final.rar
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