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Sun xVM VirtualBox
VirtualBox is an absolutely free desktop virtualization product for x86 platform. It supports both 32bit and 64bit architectures. The current version is 2.0, and with its release a commercial support was introduced, which means the VirtualBox product is still free to download and use, but can be professionally supported in your enterprise environment.
VirtualBox is part of the xVM Virtualization suite presented by Sun Microsystems in September 2008.
VirtualBox features
VirtualBox supports a standard set of features, including the following:
- Unique design - modular and lightweight
- All VM configuration is stored in XML files
- Solaris, Windows and Linux are supported as both host and guest OSes, Mac OS X is supported as host OS.
- Performance: Guest software to optimize the guest VM performance for Linux and Windows
- Networking: Flexible virtual networking (you can even to PXE boot over NAT)
- Storage: SATA support
- Storage: you can use VMware-created disk images (VMDK files)
- Shared folders - seamlessly transfer files between host OS and guest VMs
Current version:2.0