Oracle's Virtualbox is one of the most popular ways to create virtual machines, so here's how to take your first steps.

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.

Microsoft's own Windows Virtual PC is free but won't accept Windows 8 as a guest. Instead, you can use Oracle's VirtualBox or VMWare's VMWare Player 4.0. Both are free and both support Windows 8.

In VirtualBox create a new virtual machine, choose Windows / Windows 7 as the type. During the initial installation process choose to create a virtual disk.

Oracle makes its first major release of VirtualBox and brings with it a new extension pack structure that should allow third-party expansion.

Both VMware Workstation 7.1 and Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2 are excellent desktop virtualization products -- in terms of general Windows application usage, both perform extremely well and are ...

Oracle has confirmed it is working on a new version of its VirtualBox VM software that will adhere to the new Windows 11 requirements.