VirtualBox – Emulate your PC

VirtualBox allows you to completely emulate a PC. It’s like having a second PC in a single window.

This is useful for testing other operating systems without repartitioning and safely (e.g. Repartition Linux), for safe navigation or to test software without the risk of an operating system unstable.

You can create as many virtual machines as you want, and install all operating systems as you want it. It is possible to define – for each virtual machine – how much memory it has, hard disk, if it has access to USB ports, the network, sound card, etc.

VirtualBox contains a disk manager that allows you to create virtual disk as .vdi files which appear as real discs in virtual machines.
This allows you to “create” at will of the disks, without ever having to repartition your hard drive.

You can also directly use ISO images of CDs and DVDs, which can test Linux distributions without having to burn them. Icing on the cake, VirtualBox RDP server has an integrated, allowing you to start a virtual machine on a computer, and use this virtual machine from another computer.?

The list of virtual machine created:

Memory configuration and type of operating system installed:

Network Configuration:

VirtualBox is free and open source, and versions are available for Windows and Linux.
VirtualBox is lighter than VMWare and simpler to use and offers almost all the functions of VMWare.

Note: For machines under another OS than Windows, please choose another version of these