Our Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion shootout took a deep dive into the two most successful commercial virtualization products for the Mac, but many of you had questions about VirtualBox, the free ...

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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. So you've gotten started with Linux, but you're looking for a new flavor besides Ubuntu to try out. Instead of installing a bunch of them from scratch ...

VirtualBox 7.2.2 is out, fixing critical startup crashes and making TPM emulation on Linux work again. It's the first maintenance update in the new 7.2 series.

Oracle has announced the general availability of version 4.0 of the Oracle VM VirtualBox free open source virtualization platform. The announcement comes only three weeks after the company debuted the ...

Try Windows 8 alongside your regular OS on both PC and Mac by downloading Oracle's free VirtualBox software and following our instructions. Nik Rawlinson has been writing about tech since Windows 95 ...

We first noted the open-source virtualization application VirtualBox way back in 2007, and since then this open-source competitor to VMware Fusion and Parallels has come a long way. Most importantly, ...

Upgrading to a new operating system can be an intimidating undertaking that massively disrupts your daily workflow. And considering the dramatic interface changes introduced in Windows 8, you may not ...

While Microsoft makes far more revenue selling a retail box of Windows to an Intel Mac user than it does bundling the software on a new PC (hundreds of dollars retail versus around $30 for an OEM ...

Open source virtualization program VirtualBox has reached version 4, and the developers are hailing it as a major milestone. VirtualBox is one of the many projects Oracle found itself with when it ...

I've used Virtual Box for years and I've yet to see a compelling reason to switch. I don't care for 3D and anyone who does should not be running a VM anyway. Virtual Box has been 100% stable for me ...