Virtual Box

 

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction. 

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD. 

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Oracle ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

For more details please do visit the following web link.

http://www.virtualbox.org/

My Review:

1) Who can use this tool?

a) Any one who is interested to work on cross platforms parallelly on the same hardware can make use of this tool.

2) Is it a free ware?

a)  Yes, its a freeware and can also be used for both personal and commercial purpose.

3) Have you used this tool?

a) Yes. I have been using this tool since couple of months.

4) How to use this tool?

a) Just download the installer and install it in your PC.Once done run the app and you are ready to go for creating virtual machines.There are docs that explain in detail for using this.

5)How do you rate this tool?

a) 5/5 (overall).

Download:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

http://filehippo.com/download_virtualbox/

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Sid