Virtualbox
From Conservapedia
| Virtualbox | |
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| Virtualbox logo introduced in 2010 | |
| About | |
| Classification | Utility |
| Type | Hypervisor/VMM |
| Creator(s) | Innotek GmbH |
| Developer(s) | Oracle Corporation |
| First Release | January 15, 2007 |
| Development status | Active |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | VirtualBox.org
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| Requirements | |
| OS | Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, or Solaris |
| R.A.M. | Host requirements plus guest requirements |
| Permanent Storage | 30MB plus guest OS requirement[1] |
Virtualbox is a popular virtual machine emulator by the Oracle Corporation, originally by Innotek (which was then acquired by Sun, and then Oracle). Virtualbox is an application, installed onto a host operating system, and is capable of hosting emulated systems, called Guest OSes. Virtualbox supports a large variety of operating systems, including most Linuxes, all recent Windows, UNIX and GNU/hurd and limited Mac OSX.
Licencing
The core package for Virtualbox is open source, available under the GNU GPLv2. Previously, when owned by Innotek, it was a proprietary personal use and evaluation licence, which while free, was not free (as in freedom).
