Questions tagged [virtual-box]
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a free and open-source hypervisor for x86 computers currently being developed by Oracle Corporation. It supports the creation and management of guest virtual machines running versions and derivations of Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2, Solaris, Haiku, OSx86 and others, and limited virtualization of macOS guests on Apple hardware
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Is there a decent alternative to Oracle's VirtualBox with similar UX, feature set, and stability?
I'm looking for an alternative to Oracle's (formerly Sun's) VirtualBox virtualization suite.
There have been no changes in the last six months or so, and I'm worried the virtualization suite might get ...
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Lightest-weight OS to run Chrome in VM
I want to run Chrome in a VM (VirtualBox on Mac) for some testing. However, I don't really care which OS I use for it. Which would be the lightest OS I could run Chrome on?
I imagine it would be some ...
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Several virtual computers on the one Virtual Box
I have a trouble with run several similar virtual machines (computers) on the one Virtual Box (VB). But I can run one virtual machine on the VB.
I use main operation system (OS) is Windows 7 ...
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Is the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack open source? Are there FOSS alternatives? [closed]
I was wondering whether Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack is open source. Unlike VirtualBox itself it looks like it isn't.
It adds support for USB 2.0, for RDP and disk encryption.
Are there any ...
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Hide Windows Application
I have several applications including Mathematica and VirtualBox(with Ubuntu) that I constantly run in the background.
Ideally I would like these applications to automatically start at boot but hide ...
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Linux virtual machine for PHP/MySQL/JS Eclipse-based web development
I am aware of the Vee Dee Eyes site, but that only seems to offer distros, empty of any but the default applications.
I am looking for a Virtual Machine for web development (and another for c/c++, ...
