Virtual machines can seem juuuuust a bit too geeky for most otherwise computer-friendly people. That's sad, because it's an easy, free way to try another operating system, or use those one or two ...

Open VirtualBox, highlight your virtual machine in the sidebar, and go to Machines > Settings > System. From here, you can adjust how much RAM your machine gets, how many processor cores, and more.

VirtualBox includes advanced snapshot controls over its drive images. Open the “Machine Tools” menu, and choose “Snapshots.” This enables you to manage your VM images.

Full virtualization allows VirtualBox to run OSes entirely different than the OS it is running on top of. The app can do this using the magic of virtual machines (VM), because each machine runs ...

Many developers use virtual machines to test apps running under various hardware and software configurations. Because Windows 10 has already proved itself to be a very popular OS, developers and ...

Creating New VirtualBox Before reading a VMware virtual machine, you must create a new VirtualBox vm and configure basic settings. Open VirtualBox from the Start menu and create a new virtual machine.

The first version of VirtualBox 4 I tried in January 2011 would leave my USB Webcam running for no reason, and the main dialog where you launch and maintain your virtual machines would always ...

But I didn't let tracing run while PXE booting a real machine or a virtual machine from ESXi, so I don't know if that's normal or not. And yes, Virtualbox is at it's latest and greatest.

You should. In fact, you must. When something goes awry, you want to have a solid backup available. Of course, VirtualBox has a great snapshot tool and you could always make use of that.

Close the command prompt window once the commands have been executed without witnessing any errors. cd “C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\”VBoxManage.exe modifyvm “name of virtual machine ...

No RDP support—you cannot connect to VirtualBox virtual machines from a remote location. No USB support—USB devices won't work in the virtual machine. No USB-over-RDP support (I guess that makes sense ...