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279 VirtualBox Reviews
4.5 out of 5
279 VirtualBox Reviews
4.5 out of 5

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Pedro T.
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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

What is an open-source system that allows you to run multiple OS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

What is incompatible with some virtualization sq Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

The ease of use of the tool and its applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

The ability to use with other virtualization tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pascual G.
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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

VirtualBox is very efficient when it comes to providing an environment that allows running more than one operating system. In this way, we can have a Mac operating system installed and additionally, we can simultaneously have another environment to have Windows and interact with the resources in a shared way.

We can even see shared file systems, resources such as USBs, microphones, hard drives, and in general almost all installed devices.

With VirtualBox we won't have problems running applications in the environment it provides us as long as we have configured the computer's resources in an equitable way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

VirtualBox operates efficiently in most cases, however, it is important that we consider having enough memory to share in the two environments, that is, if we have 16 Gbytes, we must distribute a part for the VirtualBox environment and the rest for the operating system. major. Additionally, it is important to properly manage updates, since in some cases, implementing a new version could have some compatibility issues. That being said, VirtualBox is very effective and has proven to be a current favorite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

It is very easy to use and maintain multiple machines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

The computer in which this process is running must have a quite remarkable capacity must be of great capacity or powerful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

it allows multiple VMs to run at once for free Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

I haven't had any problems using Virtualbox Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

VirtualBox was the first virtualization software I've used and it's very useful for beginners and professionals. there will be a lot of problems when we using an operating system in hypervisors and with VirtualBox it's very easy to troubleshoot those problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

There is not so much to dislike about it but some updates of virtualbox came up with issues when we installing guest additions especially in windows7 iso files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

VirtualBox is a multi-OS virtualisation software, meaning it can run on multiple hosts (Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris hosts) and supports a large number of guest operating systems including very old ones (like Windows NT4, XP and Vista). This can be very useful for testing. VirtualBox gets updated frequently which is important for this kind of software, meaning it is fully supported and maintained by Oracle. And bonus: it is Open Source! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

VirtualBox support for ARM-based Apple Silicon Mac devices is in its early development phase, so not fully supported yet. Hopefully a new version will come soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

The best thing about VirtualBox is how it lets me run different operating systems on my computer at the same time. It' helps me to test and use different software on different OS. Setting up VirtualBox is super easy and user-friendly. VirtualBox's snapshot feature is a lifesaver. I can capture the exact state of a virtual machine, kind of like a backup. If something messes up, I can just roll back to a previous snapshot and save loads of time and effort.

I love how seamlessly VirtualBox integrates the host and guest operating systems. I can share folders and files, copy and paste stuff, and even drag and drop files between them. It's smooth sailing for transferring data and working across different environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

Performance issues: VirtualBox can be sluggish on older machines, causing difficulties when running certain operating systems that require higher system resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

Virtual Box is one of the best tool available in the market. Best thing about VirtualBox is its performance. It give awesome performance in Windows and MacOS. I use it for creating isolated testing environment so that the bug of virus would not impact the main OS. Benifit of using Virtual Box is I can easily install multiple OS and use all of at the same time. I love the snapshot features due to this I don't have to worry about the OS crash. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

There is no flaw in VirtualBox it works well without any issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VirtualBox?

I am using Ubuntu and I am running Windows OS using VirtualBox on the same machine. It is very easy to run two OS on the same machine. It provides a couple of good features like RAM, HDD usage etc.

I can access the Internet without any issues. I can share the folders between the two OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VirtualBox?

I don't have anything to dislike about VirtualBox at the moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.