Linux distributions, including SuSE 9 and newer, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and newer, and othersįigure 5.1 Platforms Supported by Oracle VM VirtualBox.Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista, 7) and Windows Server 20.Solaris 10 5/08 and newer, and OpenSolaris 2008.05 and newer.Binaries are available for these operating systems, most of them in 32-bit and 64-bit versions:

VirtualBox includes a hypervisor for the host platform, an application programming interface (API) and software development kit (SDK) for managing guest virtual machines, a command-line tool for managing guests locally, a web service for remote management of guests, a wizard-style graphical tool to manage guests, a graphical console for displaying guest applications on the local host, and a built-in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server that provides complete access to a guest from a remote client.Īs shown in Figure 5.1, VirtualBox can run on a wide variety of host platforms. As a hosted hypervisor, it extends the existing operating system installed on the hardware rather than replacing it. Designed for use on Intel and AMD x86 systems, Oracle VM VirtualBox can be deployed on desktop or server hardware. Oracle VM VirtualBox ('VirtualBox') is a high-performance, cross-platform virtualization engine for use on computers running Microsoft Windows, the most popular Linux distributions, Oracle Solaris, or MacOS.

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