Oracle VM VirtualBox Reviews

Virtual Box is a solution for using multiple opertaing system in a host. Virtual box helped me to use different operating systems in a computer with out dual booting.

- We need to add a extention pack to enable some more feature. Virtual box doesnt provide it by default

Using virtual box it helped me to use different operating system in a computer without buying another hardware.

How I was able to scale up in the different environments. It was easy to understand the different features that the application has and also how while a community there is to have a knowledge library.

I did like the fact that i had to disable the network card each time i was going on my company network then join again

Gives the opportunity to have your own test server

The virtual box is a more than convenient software that helped me through my college life as well as proving more than efficient in the work environment. The system is simple and easy to use.

The system might take some time to get familiar for first time users.

It simply solves the need for multiple systems with multiple OS Systems. This Virtualbox helps run multiple models in one system reducing the cost of resources in a company and providing more efficient resource availability.

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!

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.

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).

It can spin up any OS I want. I can maintain multiple OS from one machine. Very useful when you need an independent uncorrupted environment for research or debugging.

As with an actual OS, it requires a certain amount of ram memory and hard disk space. In the case of Windows, the hard disk tends to expand to more than double its original size. Most image requires at least 2g ram but almost 4g to run smoothly.

Spinning up OSes for development and research only when required and able to snapshot images for backups.

The graphics are fascinating and it has brought a lot ease to which I can install multiple Operating Systems in a single computer.

For what I needed it covered all my needs.

Secure and fast way to test applications on several OSs using only one computer.

VirtualBox could not make it much easier to set up virtual machine and virtual network. Snapshots are also a very convenient feature for a variety of different tasks, especially when setting up several VMs for a malware analysis lab.

The host-key idea is not convenient. A more static key across systems would be better. For example, when I lose the menu header, it can be difficult to get it back. Also difficult to stretch the VMs across two monitors.

It allows me to setup up temporary virtual machines for penetration testing and malware analysis. It assists me in protecting my physical host system from malicious software and bad configurations. With the snapshots, I can revert back to a pre-defined state.

Virtual Box is one of the best tool available in the market. Best thing about VirtualBox is its performance. It give awesome performance in Windows and MacOS. I use it for creating isolated testing environment so that the bug of virus would not impact the main OS. Benifit of using Virtual Box is I can easily install multiple OS and use all of at the same time. I love the snapshot features due to this I don't have to worry about the OS crash.

There is no flaw in VirtualBox it works well without any issue.

Virtual Box is the life saviour. I have installed Virtual Box on a powerful window desktop and create it as a server with different types of OS. Running multiple OS on a single machine helps me to cut the costing. I don't have to purchase different OS machine with this I can easily install multiple OS and test application on it.

Easy to use, can get most complex networking topologies in your workstation, and is easy to automate with tools like Hashicorp's Vagrant. Snapshots are easy to manage.

Performance-wise is a bit slow compared to other tools like VMWare Workstation and lacks native integration with other bare metal hypervisors like vSphere and Hyper-V.

Creating isolated environments for testing code and designing architectures on the go in your workstation. Helps design images thanks to Hashicorp tools like Packer and Vagrant.

As a native user of windows, of course, sometimes you need to run Linux OS, and then it comes to which VM to use, we use VirtualBox internally in our company for these reasons:

It helps us in the business domain to prepare training VMs and share it with the trainers in advance and it saves the time of setup and installing all tools individually.

1. Free of course and hence you can find many tutorials and QAs online.

2. User-friendly UI and easy step by step to install and add different Linux packages to it

3. Can import already prepared VM in another machine and share it with other users

4. Creates baselines and snapshots of the OS that you can revert to it anytime.

5. Shared files easily between VM and the native OS (Windows for example).

6. Devices shared to the VM from the native OS, like connecting USBs and any device with an easy select menu.

1. It is a little bit of an advanced step to create a shared folder between the native OS and the VM, now it has been easier with plugins, but still from time to time facing issues till this gets working.

2. Since windows 10 onwards has now hypervisor feature already supported, some feature has conflicts with the VM that you need to change windows 10 settings beforehand.

1. Create/Install VMs for other OS (Linux) on your native windows OS

2. Export a VM that has a special setting and can be directly shared with company colleagues.