Create a new VM Click VirtualBox’s Add toolbar button, give the VM a name, and set Type to Linux, and Version to Other Linux, with the appropriate bit (32 or 64) parameter matching your distro.

If you find yourself with a mismatched VirtualBox and VirtualBox Extension Pack release, such that VirtualBox itself cannot resolve, Jack Wallen shows you how to fix this from the command line.

Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you.

Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you.

Both VMware Workstation 7.1 and Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2 are excellent desktop virtualization products -- in terms of general Windows application usage, both perform extremely well and are ...

Oracle VM VirtualBox allows users to run nearly any standard x86 OS to run applications that are not available natively on their systems.

Parallels Desktop and VMware support DirectX 11. The new ARM-based version of VirtualBox is nowhere near as capable. It merely lets you install ARM-based versions of Linux on Apple silicon computers.

VirtualBox 4.2 appears to be another solid release for Oracle, putting the company one step closer to joining the conversation with VMware and Parallels products.

Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you.