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Understanding Oracle VM VirtualBox

Virtualization provides several useful benefits: 1) It allows running multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single computer so that software can be run across different platforms without rebooting. 2) Complex software installations like mail servers can be packaged into virtual appliances that are easy to install and run. 3) Virtual machines act as portable containers that can be easily backed up, copied, and tested to help with disaster recovery and evaluating networked services and configurations. 4) Resources are used more efficiently through infrastructure consolidation, reducing hardware and electricity costs by running many virtual machines on few powerful hosts.

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Understanding Oracle VM VirtualBox

Virtualization provides several useful benefits: 1) It allows running multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single computer so that software can be run across different platforms without rebooting. 2) Complex software installations like mail servers can be packaged into virtual appliances that are easy to install and run. 3) Virtual machines act as portable containers that can be easily backed up, copied, and tested to help with disaster recovery and evaluating networked services and configurations. 4) Resources are used more efficiently through infrastructure consolidation, reducing hardware and electricity costs by running many virtual machines on few powerful hosts.

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THE VIRTUAL BOX

Prepared by: Ins Zandro Apostol


1.1 WHY IS VIRTUALIZATION USEFUL?
The techniques and features that Oracle VM VirtualBox provides are useful in the following scenarios:
• Running multiple operating systems simultaneously. Oracle VM VirtualBox enables you to run more than one OS at a time. This way, you can run software
written for one OS on another, such as Windows software on Linux or a Mac, without having to reboot to use it. Since you can configure what kinds
of virtual hardware should be presented to each such OS, you can install an old OS such as DOS or OS/2 even if your real computer's hardware is no longer
supported by that OS.
• Easier software installations. Software vendors can use virtual machines to ship entire software configurations. For example, installing a complete mail
server solution on a real machine can be a tedious task. With Oracle VM VirtualBox, such a complex setup, often called an appliance, can be packed into a
virtual machine. Installing and running a mail server becomes as easy as importing such an appliance into Oracle VM VirtualBox.
• Testing and disaster recovery. Once installed, a virtual machine and its virtual hard disks can be considered a container that can be arbitrarily frozen, woken
up, copied, backed up, and transported between hosts.
• Using virtual machines enables you to build and test a multi-node networked service, for example. Issues with networking, operating system, and software
configuration can be investigated easily.
• In addition to that, with the use of another Oracle VM VirtualBox feature called snapshots, one can save a particular state of a virtual machine and revert back
to that state, if necessary. This way, one can freely experiment with a computing environment. If something goes wrong, such as problems after installing
software or infecting the guest with a virus, you can easily switch back to a previous snapshot and avoid the need of frequent backups and restores.
• Any number of snapshots can be created, allowing you to travel back and forward in virtual machine time. You can delete snapshots while a VM is running to
reclaim disk space.
• Infrastructure consolidation. Virtualization can significantly reduce hardware and electricity costs. Most of the time, computers today only use a fraction of
their potential power and run with low average system loads. A lot of hardware resources as well as electricity is thereby wasted. So, instead of running many
such physical computers that are only partially used, one can pack many virtual machines onto a few powerful hosts and balance the loads between them.

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