VirtualBox is a free program designed to virtualize various operating systems, creating a complete virtual machine on a personal computer. This utility is freely available.
VirtualBox gives the user the ability to create virtual operating systems on a personal computer. Almost all known operating systems such as Windows, Solaris , GNU/Linux, Mac OS, BSD and others are available for installation.
The main features of VirtualBox:
- Supports secondary (guest) systems (64-, 32-bit host systems);
- supports installation and updates (SMP) on the side of a secondary system;
- supports 3D hardware acceleration (experimental);
- supports VMDK and VHD hard disk images;
- has audio device virtualization feature (SoundBlaster 16, AC 97);
- supports various types of network contacts and interactions (Internal, NAT, Host Networking via Bridged);
- supports full chain of all saved virtual machine states, with which you can "rollback" from any state of the guest (secondary) OS;
- supports Shared Folders program for easy and convenient sharing of different files between the host and the secondary operating systems;
- ability to integrate guest and primary desktops (seamless mode);
- multilingual and user-friendly interface (English language available).
VirtualBox program for operating systems virtualization will be useful for those users, who test new programs and utilities, especially incompatible with main installed OS.
Also with VirtualBox you can safely perform several different functions on different operating systems, packing your PC with several virtual machines, intelligently distributing the load between them. This program is easy to install and has a clear and simple interface.
