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What is VirtualBox?

VirtualBox is an open source x86 and AMD64/Intel64 VDI solution for enterprises.

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Product Description

VirtualBox is an open source x86 and AMD64/Intel64 VDI solution for enterprises.


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Oracle

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Oracle Corporation develops, manufactures, markets, hosts, and supports database and middleware software, applications software, and hardware systems.

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Muhammad I.
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Muhammad I.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Review of Virtual Box"
Virtual Box is the best because its free, its open-source and most important is supports different operating systems(OS).
Marc G.
MG
Marc G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"A must-have regardless of platform you are on"
My review is solely based on it's Linux integration. Oracle-Virtualbox is free, easy to find, download and install, has few requirements. Once th...
Vamsidhar Reddy Y.
VY
Vamsidhar Reddy Y.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"super usefull application."
Great!tailored especially for developers, testers, and cybersecurity professionals like in your case with pentesting/Mobexler/APK testing

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

10 months

Average Discount

15%

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Marc G.
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Administrateur de Systèmes
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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

My review is solely based on it's Linux integration. Oracle-Virtualbox is free, easy to find, download and install, has few requirements.

Once that is done : you simply need to locate and download the distro of your choice. With basic hardware and networking knowledge you can then set it up. Also the copy + paste between the VM and the host OS is a big plus. I do use other virtualization tools, but for home and training it's a must-have : I've been using it for several years now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

The networking, depending on the versions can be a bit more complicated to setup - with the : NAT, bridged, internal-adaptor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

If I need to put together an OS to test and not damage my workstation : then to train or learn it's indispensable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad I.
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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

Virtual Box is the best because its free,

its open-source

and most important is supports different operating systems(OS). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

Performance can be slower as compare to other hypervisor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

VirtualBox runs ,multiple OS in a single machine, helps testing, cross-compatibility without a separate hardware machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vamsidhar Reddy Y.
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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

Great!tailored especially for developers, testers, and cybersecurity professionals like in your case with pentesting/Mobexler/APK testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

There is no dislikes as of my experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

every thing when i used to connect to different environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pedro T.
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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

What is an open-source system that allows you to run multiple OS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

What is incompatible with some virtualization sq Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

Images of OS on server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

The ease of use of the tool and its applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

The ability to use with other virtualization tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

The use with other virtualization applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pascual G.
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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

VirtualBox is very efficient when it comes to providing an environment that allows running more than one operating system. In this way, we can have a Mac operating system installed and additionally, we can simultaneously have another environment to have Windows and interact with the resources in a shared way.

We can even see shared file systems, resources such as USBs, microphones, hard drives, and in general almost all installed devices.

With VirtualBox we won't have problems running applications in the environment it provides us as long as we have configured the computer's resources in an equitable way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

VirtualBox operates efficiently in most cases, however, it is important that we consider having enough memory to share in the two environments, that is, if we have 16 Gbytes, we must distribute a part for the VirtualBox environment and the rest for the operating system. major. Additionally, it is important to properly manage updates, since in some cases, implementing a new version could have some compatibility issues. That being said, VirtualBox is very effective and has proven to be a current favorite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

With VirtualBox, we have multiple environments, starting from a main environment with an operating system for MAC and a VirtualBox installation to run Windows applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad N.
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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

It is very easy to use and maintain multiple machines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

The computer in which this process is running must have a quite remarkable capacity must be of great capacity or powerful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can easily and efficiently create virtual machines and use them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KW
Helpdesk Analyst and Cybersecurity Consultant
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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

it allows multiple VMs to run at once for free Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

I haven't had any problems using Virtualbox Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allows me to run VMs for pentesting purposes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ANIRUDH T.
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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

VirtualBox was the first virtualization software I've used and it's very useful for beginners and professionals. there will be a lot of problems when we using an operating system in hypervisors and with VirtualBox it's very easy to troubleshoot those problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

There is not so much to dislike about it but some updates of virtualbox came up with issues when we installing guest additions especially in windows7 iso files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

As security researcher I always need some OS like kali linux or parrotOS for my work and it's not good to keep those OSes as my home OS because I'm keeping a lot of payloads in it for research purposes.

and a single execution of those files cause complete disruption to my data,so I used virtualbox to install kali linux and it was so smooth and fast to run. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gregory D.
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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

VirtualBox is a multi-OS virtualisation software, meaning it can run on multiple hosts (Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris hosts) and supports a large number of guest operating systems including very old ones (like Windows NT4, XP and Vista). This can be very useful for testing. VirtualBox gets updated frequently which is important for this kind of software, meaning it is fully supported and maintained by Oracle. And bonus: it is Open Source! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

VirtualBox support for ARM-based Apple Silicon Mac devices is in its early development phase, so not fully supported yet. Hopefully a new version will come soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use VirtualBox not only for testing our software applications inside older guest operating systems (such as XP or Vista), but also to run certain Linux distributions for specific purposes (e.g. Kali Linux for pentesting). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.