VirtualBox by InnoTek is a commercial and proprietary (with a limited GPL version) x86 virtualizer for Linux, Mac OS X (beta version) and Windows 32-bit and 64-bit hosts supporting FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, OS/2 Warp and Windows as guest operating systems. After several years of development, VirtualBox OSE (Open source edition), a limited, open-source version, was released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) in January 2007.
Compared with the other established commercial virtualization software such as VMware Workstation and Microsoft Virtual PC, VirtualBox lacks some features, but in turn provides others. Such unique features are running virtual machines remotely over the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), iSCSI support and USB support with remote devices over RDP.
VirtualBox supports Intel's hardware virtualization VT-x and has experimental support for AMD's AMD-V, but doesn't use either of them by default.
Homepage: http://virtualbox.org
1 comment:
the GPL version is not so "limited"... it's the same as the binary, only lacking USB and RDP support... everything else is GPL
btw, the binary version is free, so it's not like you should point it as a disadvantage, when vmware is truly the closed, propietary and commercial product
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