Tutorial (learning to use virtualbox software)

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I personally think that virtual software is a great invention. In terms of learning and application, virtual software creates great value for this society. At present, there are many types of virtualization software on the market, but the two are actually widely used, namely VMWare, virtualbox and Virtual PC. Among them, vmare is a pure virtual software company, virtual PC is a product of Microsoft, and virtualbox is an open source software, of course, it also has a commercial version.

Virtualbox was first developed by a German company. later it was acquired by Sun, and then sun was acquired by Oracle, therefore, this product has become a product of oracle. Compared with Vmware, virtualbox has a much lower reputation. However, as far as my personal experience is concerned, virtualbox is a very good product. It not only has stable products, but also has a small Installation File. At the same time, it is caused by open-source software, users do not need any authorization or permission. In addition, virtualbox supports windows, Linux, and Mac platforms and can be installed and used on many systems. I believe that many Mac users understand that for some special files, it is often necessary to virtualize a Linux or Windows system. In this case, virtualbox can help you.

After talking about this, What Can virtualbox do for individual users? Let me come here one by one.

A) virtualbox supports the virtualization of Many operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, Mac, and BSD. I have virtualized three OS types: Windows, Linux, and Mac;

B) virtualbox can be installed on different OS platforms. For example, you can Virtualize Linux on Windows or on Linux. This is actually very important;

C) using virtualbox can help us learn network-related knowledge, such as building a server network, configuring servers, and creating an experimental LAN, which is of practical significance;

D) Many embedded users often have only one computer. In this case, they can use virtual machines to perform cross-compilation and debugging on the target version, which is very convenient to use;

E) on real machines, a lot of operations are actually very dangerous. For example, virus research work, but there is no such worry on virtual machines;

F) We can maintain some software developed in the previous system on the virtual machine, which can prolong the service life of the software and reduce the upgrade cost;

G) It is difficult to purchase some hardware devices, such as floppy, which are not a problem on virtual machines;

H) in real life, Machine backup and replication are a headache, but there is no such problem on the virtual machine. The virtual computer itself is a file that can be copied or shared;

I) I can use virtual machines to learn how to use a PC to develop a driver. At least I can use a virtual machine to view many drivers such as PCI Nic, usbhid, psmouse, and Floopy on Linux.Code;

J) If students master virtual machines, they can simulate many platforms such as Linux, Windows Server, and Mac. This is a very low-cost learning experience. once mastered, the benefits will be infinite.

Of course, if you wish to run the Virtual Machine virtualbox on your machine, you 'd better configure the system itself, such as faster CPU, virtualization, larger memory, and more hard disk space. In general, these are not big issues. My laptop was configured four years ago and runs one or two Ubuntu 10.04 instances. There is no problem. If you are interested in virtualbox, you may wish to download the software and experiment with it yourself. I believe there will be a lot of GAINS.