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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.
Oracle VirtualBox: Yes Yes Yes Virtualization: Business workstation, server consolidation, service continuity, developer, hobbyist Up to near native [citation needed] Yes (with commercial license) Virtual Iron 3.1 Yes, up to 8 way Yes Yes Native virtualization: Server consolidation, service continuity, dev/test ? Yes Virtual PC 2007 No Yes Yes
Examples outside the mainframe field include Parallels Workstation, Parallels Desktop for Mac, VirtualBox, Virtual Iron, Oracle VM, Virtual PC, Virtual Server, Hyper-V, VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, VMware Server (discontinued, formerly called GSX Server), VMware ESXi, QEMU, Adeos, Mac-on-Linux, Win4BSD, Win4Lin Pro, and Egenera vBlade ...
The info box says that the size for VirtualBox is "40 – 90 MB depending on platform." But I'm downloading 4.2.6 on OS X, and it says the download size is 104 MB. And an extracted version of 4.2.4 (so the app itself, not the compressed download DMG) is 250 MB. Seems the infobox should be updated. Althepal 22:34, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Oracle VM Server for x86 is a server virtualization offering from Oracle Corporation.Oracle VM Server for x86 incorporates the free and open-source Xen hypervisor technology, supports Windows, Linux, and Solaris [3] guests and includes an integrated Web based management console.
It supports VirtualBox and most VMware products (e.g. Workstation, Player, Fusion and vSphere/ESX). Also includes open-vmtools (for VMware). VMDK - "VM" in Turnkey Linux download mirrors - As above, but packaged
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.
Hyper-V is a native hypervisor developed by Microsoft; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. [1] It is included in Pro and Enterprise editions of Windows NT (since Windows 8) as an optional feature to be manually enabled. [2]