Oracle launched another salvo in the virtual machine battle (see The battle over virtual machine software for a deeper analysis of the battle) by offering Oracle VM 3.3. As mentioned in that ...

Oracle recently launched the next version of its virtualization solution – Oracle Virtual Machine 3.0. Oracle claims that the new version of Oracle Virtual Machine scales four times better than ...

Oracle VM Manager uses the same set of APIs that apply to both x86 and Sparc server virtualization, bringing a highly anticipated addition to Oracle VM 3.2: a new command-line interface (CLI) option.

In launching version 3.0 of its virtual machine, Oracle is making some bold claims: that it scales up about four times better than VMware does, delivers all the storage-management features that ...

Now Oracle has announced the latest release of its free server virtualization and management solution, Oracle VM Server for x86, Release 3.1.

What are we to make of Oracle announcing support for an open stack of cloud foundation software for its distribution of Linux and Xen? Are we seeing a culture clash?

Oracle is marketing Oracle Virtual Machine 3.0 as a cheaper, yet better alternative to VMware's hypervisor software. Oracle VM makes it easier to deploy and manage applications.

Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 also offers support for USB 3.0 devices, so “you can plug in a video camera, for example, and expose that device directly into your virtual machine,” Coekaerts said.

Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you.

If you want install Oracle Linux on Oracle VirtualBox, you can follow this guide to download the VM tool, ISO file, and create the VM.

Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you.