For example, you can install Windows on a MacBook inside a type 2 hypervisor. Type 2 hypervisors are often used on workstations or laptops to spin up additional machines with isolated operating systems. KVM and VMware ESXi are examples of type 1 hypervisors. VMware Workstation for Windows/Linux and VMware Fusion for MacOS are type 2 hypervisors.Ī “Type 1 hypervisor” runs directly on bare metal. VirtualBox is a so-called “Type 2 hypervisor”, which means it runs on top of an operating system such as Windows, Linux or macOS. Since then, the product is known as Oracle VirtualBox.

Sun Microsystems acquired Innotek in 2008 and Oracle bought Sun in 2010. VirtualBox is a free and open-source hypervisor for x86 virtualization that was originally released by Innotek GmbH in 2007. One of those is Oracle VirtualBox for example. There are still other vendors out there that also deliver x86 virtualization solutions. VMware has been dominating the x86 virtualization market for years. When we talk about Virtual Machines (VMs) we always talk about VMware VMs.

Step-by-step Migration from VirtualBox to VMware.

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