In VirtualBox Host OS and Guest OS can communicate with each other by shared clipboard, shared folders or virtual network. The task manager screen is shown below for your reference. If your system does not support virtualization then the above information will missing from the screen. If your system supports virtualization then at the bottom right it will show the status of virtualization as enabled or disabled. If you are on a windows System and you want to know whether your system supports virtualization or not. Hardware based virtualization improves the overall performance of the system, especially the graphics. Then from the BIOS menu enable the virtualization option. To enable the hardware based virtualization, we have to go to the BIOS menu of our Laptop or Desktop computer.

The software based virtualization is dropped from the latest version 6.1 of the VirtualBox. We had the choice of selecting the type of the virtualization if the hardware has the support. VirtualBox 6.0 and prior versions had software as well as hardware based virtualization.

One is software based and the other is hardware based. There are two types of virtualization technology. We can configure, start, pause and stop each operating system installed in the VirtualBox independently. We can install multiple operating systems in VirtualBox. The OS on which VirtualBox itself is installed is known as host OS. However, the OS that is installed in the VirtualBox is known as guest OS. Currently Oracle VM VirtualBox is freely available from the Oracle Corporations Official Website. Since then Oracle Corporation renamed VirtualBox as Oracle VM VirtualBox. However, Oracle Corporation acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010. Innotek GmbH was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2007.

In 2007 Innotek released VirtualBox open source edition under the GNU General Public License. However, VirtualBox supports both 32 bit and 64 bit version of almost all the major operating systems.įurthermore, VirtualBox was first released by Innotek GmbH, Germany, under the proprietary software license. It is a virtualization application which allows to run different operating systems on the host machine. However we will also learn how to install Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack after the installation of Oracle VirtualBox 6.1.

In this blog post we will have a look at How to Install Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.1 on Windows 10 Step by Step with Screenshots.

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