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It can spin up any OS I want. I can maintain multiple OS from one machine. Very useful when you need an independent uncorrupted environment for research or debugging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As with an actual OS, it requires a certain amount of ram memory and hard disk space. In the case of Windows, the hard disk tends to expand to more than double its original size. Most image requires at least 2g ram but almost 4g to run smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Virtual Box is a solution for using multiple opertaing system in a host. Virtual box helped me to use different operating systems in a computer with out dual booting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- We need to add a extention pack to enable some more feature. Virtual box doesnt provide it by default Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Free to try; all updates are also free.

Practically provides zero-cost hypervisor cost multi-OS lab environments. Pretty reliable and stable and won't let you down.

Straightforward to use and fuss-free as compared to VMware. Nice support forums. File transfer, disk sharing & snapshots options are easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Performance is low in comparison to others. Error details are not as precise for troubleshooting as they should be.

Not fully proven for cloud-native environments. 6wind, vpp support isn't as great.

Not many settings can be done automatically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The graphic user interface, that has a good user experience, and makes very easy to use it.

It is Open Source Software. It is possible to tune the specs guest machine, so you can control how many resources is going to use the host. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes is hard to set up some details, like network, screen size for the guest desktop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The virtual box is a more than convenient software that helped me through my college life as well as proving more than efficient in the work environment. The system is simple and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The system might take some time to get familiar for first time users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VirtualBox could not make it much easier to set up virtual machine and virtual network. Snapshots are also a very convenient feature for a variety of different tasks, especially when setting up several VMs for a malware analysis lab. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The host-key idea is not convenient. A more static key across systems would be better. For example, when I lose the menu header, it can be difficult to get it back. Also difficult to stretch the VMs across two monitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Virtualbox allows me to run local environments that are exact mirrors of production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be cumbersom to work with at times. Upgrading can be problematic and has rendered my virtual machines inaccessible. But this is rare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VirtualBox can run many operating systems, including various Linux distributions one may have wanted to try but wasn't willing to devote an actual machine to. It's more flexible than commercial products that limit you to specific operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VirtualBox isn't the most efficient or performant virtual machine host, and it's not exactly the most aesthetically polished software, either, with some user interface oddities and annoyances—at least for those who care about such things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As a native user of windows, of course, sometimes you need to run Linux OS, and then it comes to which VM to use, we use VirtualBox internally in our company for these reasons:

It helps us in the business domain to prepare training VMs and share it with the trainers in advance and it saves the time of setup and installing all tools individually.

1. Free of course and hence you can find many tutorials and QAs online.

2. User-friendly UI and easy step by step to install and add different Linux packages to it

3. Can import already prepared VM in another machine and share it with other users

4. Creates baselines and snapshots of the OS that you can revert to it anytime.

5. Shared files easily between VM and the native OS (Windows for example).

6. Devices shared to the VM from the native OS, like connecting USBs and any device with an easy select menu. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. It is a little bit of an advanced step to create a shared folder between the native OS and the VM, now it has been easier with plugins, but still from time to time facing issues till this gets working.

2. Since windows 10 onwards has now hypervisor feature already supported, some feature has conflicts with the VM that you need to change windows 10 settings beforehand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The graphics are fascinating and it has brought a lot ease to which I can install multiple Operating Systems in a single computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For what I needed it covered all my needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.