Oracle Corp. is rolling out a major update to its free open-source virtualization platform, Oracle VM VirtualBox. Announced today, Oracle VM VirtualBox 7 is a cross-platform application that enables ...

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a powerful and free virtualization package for enterprise as well as home use. It was originally created by a software company named Innotek GmbH, which was then purchased by ...

Parallels and VMware may have the more popular virtualization solutions, but Oracle's free VirtualBox solution may be a useful alternative for those who need to run other operating systems on their ...

Virtualization is a buzzword that's been making its way around the corporate IT circles for a few years. On paper, virtualization sounds great—you can make full use of those unused CPU cycles, ...

Two years ago, we visited the subject of free desktop virtualization hypervisors. At the time, the two preferred free solutions were Sun's xVM VirtualBox and and VMware Server 2.0. Things have changed ...

May 20, 2008 at 8:30 p.m. PT On May 2 nd of 2008 during its CommunityOne event, and concurrent with the initial release of OpenSolaris 2008.05, Sun released version 1.6 of xVM VirtualBox as a free ...

VMware Workstation 11 has the edge in performance and polish, while VirtualBox 2.3.20 leads in platform support and price. Few technologies have had a greater impact on business efficiency and IT ...

Version 3.1 of Sun's VirtualBox hosted virtualization software gains new features such as Teleportation, snapshots, and 2D acceleration Sun is continuing to push its virtualization agenda forward.

Last week, I had the honor of being one of the guests on the inaugural Virtumania podcast. On the show we had Rich Brambley, Sean Clark (the guy with the hat) and Mark Farley. Our topic was the ...

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