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Beginners Guide to VirtualBox

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On my previous blog  VirtualBox: An Alternative to VMware Workstation Pro  , I shared to you the different features of VirtualBox and VMware Workstation Pro. A detailed comparison between the two-virtualization software was also provided. It was highlighted that VirtualBox would be a great alternative since aside from providing similar virtualization features, you can also download and run VirtualBox for free unlike VMware Workstation Pro which requires a user to buy a license. That is why the goal for this second blog would be to showcase the different features of VirtualBox and provide a beginner’s guide on how to use the software. Adding a virtual machine in VirtualBox At the end of my previous blog, you were able to install VirtualBox into your Windows machine. The next thing to do would be to deploy a virtual machine (VM) in your VirtualBox Manager. There are two ways you can add a virtual machine. You can either create a new VM or import a VM using the Open Virtualization For
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VirtualBox: An Alternative to VMware Workstation Pro

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  The idea of virtualization started during the mainframe days in the late 1960s and early 1970s. IBM was the first to apply virtual machines in the commercial environment. Different companies then followed and introduced their own version. In 1999, a company called VMware began selling their virtualization software called VMware Workstation. And in 2010, Oracle Corporation took over development of VirtualBox after purchasing Sun Microsystems. In today’s modern IT industry, both VMware and Oracle are market leaders in virtualization. What is Virtualization? Virtualization uses a software to create a virtualization layer over an actual hardware to abstract the host machine and its operating system from the guest machines. This layer allows a single computer’s resources (processors, memory, storage and more) to be distributed into multiple virtual instances of a computer system. These virtual instances are commonly called virtual machines (VMs). These virtual machines can run differe
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