VirtualBox

Oracle VM wikipedia:VirtualBox (2007) (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and Innotek VirtualBox) is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization.

Installation

• brew install virtualbox (up to macOS Catalina, 2019))

Error: Cask virtualbox depends on hardware architecture being one of [{:type=>:intel, :bits=>64}], but you are running {:type=>:arm, :bits=>64}.

Basic Commands

• VBoxManage list vms
• VBoxManage list runningvms
• VBoxManage showvminfo VIRTUAL_MACHINE_NAME
• VBoxManage list hdds

Activities

• Install VirtualBox Guest additions to allow shared clipboard between guest and host among other features, following doc https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#additions-linux: rcvboxadd setup

Related terms

• Vagrant
• Parallels
• Minikube
• VMware Fusion

See also

• VirtualBox, VBoxManage list vms
• Virtualization: KVM, VirtualBox, multipass, containers, Vagrant, Packer, Hyper-V, VMware, Parallels, Bhyve, Virtual machine

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#hostossupport

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#guestadd-intro