It allows for other operating systems (known as Guests) to be installed and run within an existing operating system (known as the Host).Īll of the features are available in Free version as well for personal use and not for commercial use. It was initially built & developed by Innotek GmbH and it was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, later it was acquired by Oracle in 2010 and currently being developed by Oracle Corporation. VirtualBox (formerly known as Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and Innotek VirtualBox) is an open source cross-platform virtualization software for x86 architecture and run on Linux, Windows & Mac.
I prefer virtualbox because i was using more than 4 years. Not only virtualbox, also you can use other alternatives such as QEMU, VMware Workstation Player, etc. The way to make the virtual machine look seamless with host OS is by setting the same wallpaper, set the guest to auto-resize to host window, hide the menu bar and status bar.If Windows user wants to test Linux distribution, or Linux user wants to try other Linux distributions, i would advise you guys to use Oracle Virtualbox to test this because virtualization software wont harm anything on your system. First thing we need to do in the guest system is install “guest additions” which can be inserted as a disc from Devices>Insert Guest Additions CD Image. Open virtual box and create your Virtual machine following the step by step GUI and start the machine. Install virtualbox, virtualbox-host-modules-arch, virtualbox-ext-oracle (this one is from AUR). I used my university’s license on this one. The only thing which needs to be sourced is the windows installation disk (.iso) which either someone can loan you a copy or buy one. So I installed windows on my desktop using VirtualBox. Then I realised it is better to have a windows installation loaded with commonly used software ready to go whenever I needed it rather than depending on someone else.
Initially I planned to never go back to windows and in such situations I’ll just borrow a windows computer just for that purpose. Last time I had to do it is because of a form which was a Word document set up in a way that I had to use ms word to fill it in. Even though I have moved over to Linux completely for quite sometime, every now and then I’ll encounter situations in which I really have to use windows.
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