Marketing description

Oracle VM VirtualBox is cross-platform virtualization software that allows you to extend your existing computer to run multiple operating systems at the same time. Designed for IT professionals, Oracle VM VirtualBox is ideal for testing, developing, demonstrating and deploying solutions across multiple platforms on one machine.

Key selling points

• Supports a wide-range of guest platforms
• Easy to use graphical user interface
• Powerful, scriptable command-line interface
• Import and export virtual machines using OVF/OVA standards
• Shared folders between guest VM and host machine
• Seamless, resizable, and full screen window display modes
• Video and 3D (OpenGL, DirectX) acceleration
• Multiple virtual screen support
• Powerful and flexible networking options
• USB and serial ports
• SAS, SATA, SCSI and IDE storage controllers
• Built-in iSCSI initiator
• Built-in remote display server
• Multi-generational branched snapshots
• Linked and full clones

Product features

• Intel hardware support
  Harnessing the chip-level support for virtualization, Oracle VM VirtualBox supports the Intel Core processor and Intel Xeon processors bringing faster execution times for everything from Windows to Oracle Solaris guests.
• High-performance storage I/O subsystem
  Oracle VM VirtualBox utilizes an asynchronous I/O virtual disk subsystem to achieve high-performance whilst maintaining high data integrity.
• 3D graphics acceleration
  The guest additions now feature display drivers that accelerate 3D graphics by intercepting OpenGL and Direct3D calls in the guest and leveraging the host's GPU to render the images onto the screen.
• Remote Display Protocol
  The unique built-in VirtualBox Remote Display Protocol (VRDP) has been security strengthened, and functionality enhanced to offer multiple remote monitors.
• Linked and full clones
  Oracle VM VirtualBox now makes it easy to clone virtual machines. Clones can be full copies of configuration information and virtual disks, or may share a parent virtual disk for faster cloning and greater storage efficiency.
• Large page support
  Reducing the size and overhead of key system resources, large page support delivers increased performance by enabling faster lookups and shorter table creation times.
• Page Fusion tuning
  Traditional Page Sharing techniques have suffered from long and expensive cache construction as pages are scrutinized as candidates for deduplication. Taking a smarter approach, VirtualBox Page Fusion uses intelligence in the guest virtual machine to determine much more rapidly and accurately those pages which can be eliminated thereby increasing the capacity or VM density of the system;
• Commercially supported platforms
  Oracle VM VirtualBox enables you to install and run a huge range of host and guest platforms. Oracle now offers commercial support for the most popular guest operating systems, assuring customers of expert help when they need it.