Oracle VM VirtualBox

Oracle VM VirtualBox

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VirtualBox by Oracle Corporation is a great virtualization application for all the Windows users out there. It is a complete package that is free and can run on basic hardware as well. In case you are wondering what VirtualBox does, it provides you with virtualization options to run different operating systems on your Windows.

Since Linux and other operating systems are often required for security, development, and other purposes, VirtualBox comes in to save the day. Although it is not maintained by Oracle’s developers anymore, there’s a big community that is maintaining and updating the VirtualBox. Oracle does its part by ensuring that the product meets all the required standards before it is updated.

With a feature-packed interface, VirtualBox for Windows is used to run Mac, Linux, and some other operating systems on your computer. You can use mentioned operating systems to access all the applications and features that you could not access on Windows. In professional environments including testing environments, virtualization becomes a necessity to ensure security as well as the integrity of the systems.

Cloud computing is another aspect that has been greatly influenced and boosted by virtual machines because now you can host complete cloud systems from your Windows PC by using VirtualBox. That will help you reduce the hardware costs as well as the need for a dedicated Linux machine.

VirtualBox is incredibly easy to install with some basic requirements that your computer must fulfill before installing. The main requirement is to have at least 2GB of RAM to run the application. After installing comes the getting started bit which is equally easy. 

You can start by adding a pre-configured Virtual Machine or creating a new one from scratch by clicking on the “New” button. From there you can add as much RAM as you wish (the limit being the maximum installed RAM on your machine) and then add virtual hard disk space. The recommended space is 32GB but you can add as much as you want.

Summing it all up, the VirtualBox is a great and free-to-use virtualization application for the Windows users out there who are looking to get started. If you are a technical person who already has an idea of how virtualization works, you will be able to get started in next to no time.