Setting up Linux Lab – Installing VirtualBox for Virtual Environment

by Ravi Kumar Ankam · Published February 22, 2016 · Updated January 17, 2018

To install virtualbox software Virtualization Technology is not required to enable. Simply Installing VirtualBox in your computer,

Required RAM – 4GB
CPU – 4 Cores for better performance

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a hypervisor for x86 computers from Oracle Corporation. Developed initially by Innotek GmbH, it was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008 which was in turn acquired by Oracle in 2010. Setting up Linux Lab – Installing VirtualBox for Virtual Environment

VirtualBox may be installed on a number of host operating systems, including: Linux, OS X, Windows, Solaris, and OpenSolaris. There are also ports to FreeBSD and Genode.

It supports the creation and management of guest virtual machines running versions and derivations of Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2, Solaris, Haiku, OSx86 and others, and limited virtualization of OS X guests on Apple hardware.

Setting up Linux Lab – Installing VirtualBox for Virtual Environment

Feature Set

64-bit guests (hardware virtualization support is required)
Snapshots
Seamless mode – the ability to run virtualized applications side by side with normal desktop applications
Shared clipboard
Shared folders
Special drivers and utilities to facilitate switching between systems
Command line interaction (in addition to the GUI)
Public API to control VM configuration and execution
Nested paging for AMD-V and Intel VT (only for processors supporting SLAT and with SLAT enabled)
Limited support for 3D graphics acceleration 3.0 and Direct3D 9.0c via Wine’s Direct3D to OpenGL translation
SMP support (up to 32 virtual CPUs per virtual machine), since version 3.0
Teleportation
2D video output acceleration, since version 3.1

Storage emulation features

NCQ support for SATA, SCSI and SAS raw disks and partitions
SATA disks hotplugging
Pass-through mode for solid-state drives
Pass-through mode for CD/DVD/BD disks – allows to play audio CDs, burn optical disks, play encrypted DVD disks
Can disable host OS I/O cache
Allows to limit IO bandwidth
PATA, SATA, SCSI, SAS, iSCSI, floppy disk controllers
VM disk image encryption using AES128/AES256

Storage support

Raw hard disk access – allows physical hard disk partitions on the host system to appear in the guest system
VMware Virtual Machine Disk format support – allows VirtualBox to exchange disk images with VMware
Microsoft VHD support
QEMU qed and qcow disks
HDD format disks used by Parallels virtualization products