VirtualBox

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VirtualBox

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Overview

• Light weight but feature rich
• Cross platform (Windows, Mac, nix)
• Built on existing technology
• Flexible with other VM software
• Free and open source

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Light weight

• Requirements
• Moderate Intel or ADM processor
• 512 MB of RAM or greater
• Once installed, 30 MB of hard drive space
• Installation
• Full download only 17 MB
• Downloaded, installed, and configured in under 15
  minutes
• Once installed, consists of just 20 files

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Cross Platform
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Cross Platform

• Host Computer
• Linux
• Mac OS X
• Windows
• Solaris
• FreeBSD (not fully supported)

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Cross Platform

• Virtual Computer
• DOS
• Windows 3.1 - Vista and Server 2003
• OS/2 Warp 3 - 4.5
• Linux 2.2, 2.4, 2.6
• FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
• Netware
• Solaris
• L4

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Built on existing technology

• VirtualBox makes use of QEMU in two ways first
  of all, some of the virtual hardware devices have
  their origin in the QEMU project. Secondly, the
  developers incorporated the recompiler of QEMU as
  a fallback mechanism for situations where the
  Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) cannot correctly
  handle a certain situation. This holds true for
  guest code that executes in real mode (such as
  bootup) and some rare scenarios at runtime.

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Flexible with other VM software

• VMware
• Able to open and create VMware virtual machines
• VirtualPC
• Able to open and create VirtualPC virtaul
  machines
• This is done through the Virtual Disk Manager

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Virtual Disk Manager
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Creating a VM (Vista on Ubuntu)
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Creating a VM (Vista on Ubuntu)
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Creating a VM (Vista on Ubuntu)
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Creating a VM (Vista on Ubuntu)
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Creating a VM (Vista on Ubuntu)