VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria. VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD. See ' About VirtualBox' for an introduction. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. That’s why I was happy to see that there is a VM environment that works on M1 Macs UTM. VM VirtualBox, its high performance, cross-platform virtualization software. VMWare has pledged an Apple Silicon version of Fusion, but it won’t support Windows virtual machines There’s still no word on whether the free VirtualBox VM environment will ever be updated to run on Apple Silicon.

Oracle today released a significant new version of Oracle Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions.

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