Benefits of Virtual Box

What are the benefits of Virtual Box?

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This is a very loaded question.

In reference to what?

The biggest benefit is that its free, and pretty openly supported. Alot of distro's have pre built virtual box VM's that will import cleanly. It's also supported by a large company on the back end while still being open source which makes it a pretty decent product in relative to the idea its free.

Overall though, (IMHO) I prefer VMware Fusion, or VMware workstation (Assuming you are talking about local virtualization). But these products are not free. In my experience, the network portion of paid products always seems to be better suited to whatever I throw at it.

If you are asking more broadly what are the benefits of virtualization, then a simple google search would probably help with that.

cyberguypr

That the box is not physical.

(drops mic)

BuzzSaw

cyberguypr wrote: »

That the box is not physical.

(drops mic)

LOL - nicely done

cyberguypr

See, two can play at this game. LOL!!!

Verities

Its free and you can pair it with Vagrant for a quick and easy setup/teardown for your lab environment.

markulous

Virtualbox is loyal and will never **** on you or nag you when after a hard day's worth of work.

DoubleNNs

Vagrant >>

PJ_Sneakers

markulous wrote: »

Virtualbox is loyal and will never **** on you or nag you when after a hard day's worth of work.

Yeah but she's needy.

sillymcnasty

One advantage is you can have a "pretend" computer to mess around with and destroy, and if it messes up, you can just reload it.

Chris_Wess

Sir, what is vagrant? Will you please guide me about it and the steps of setup?

hiddenknight821

va·grant
ˈvāɡrənt/
noun

1.
a person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.

synonyms:
street person, homeless person, tramp, hobo, drifter, down-and-out, derelict, beggar;More

cyberguypr

Guidance for setup steps:

1. Lose job
2. Lose home
3. Hit the streets
4. Vagrantization complete

PJ_Sneakers

hiddenknight821 wrote: »

tramp

Harsh, bro.

hiddenknight821

That's all Google, brah. Something OP should've done in the first place.

NetworkNewb

https://www.vagrantup.com/

Simrid

I'll refer you to your own kind words on someone else's thread

http://www.techexams.net/forums/virtualization/116736-virtual-machines.html#post1047046

I use VirtualBox as it is extremely easy to use even by a new Linux user. The main features and functionalities that can be easily accessed without any hard-core technical knowledge. Its biggest advantage is its cross platform support, open source. Install virtualbox on Linux, windows, and
Mac OS X.

In all seriousness, just asking the benefits of VB is a very open ended questions, benefits over a competitor etc?

scott28tt

Simrid wrote: »

I'll refer you to your own kind words on someone else's thread

Haha - and that was posted before the creation of this thread - how peculiar

bigdogz

cyberguypr wrote: »

Guidance for setup steps:

1. Lose job
2. Lose home
3. Hit the streets
4. Vagrantization complete

I think you forgot to mooch from family and friends until they can no longer stand your presence.

varelg

1. VB's interface is well- designed. Second-best is virt-manager's (KVM).
2. Most likely to be the first hypervisor newcomers try out.

JustFred

bigdogz wrote: »

I think you forgot to mooch from family and friends until they can no longer stand your presence.

Ahahahahahahahahahaha lol so true

Verities

Chris_Wess wrote: »

Sir, what is vagrant? Will you please guide me about it and the steps of setup?

NetworkNewb posted the link to the website for Vagrant. There is ample documentation and its concise as well. You can get Vagrant running in a matter of minutes.

Verities

Simrid wrote: »

I'll refer you to your own kind words on someone else's thread

http://www.techexams.net/forums/virtualization/116736-virtual-machines.html#post1047046

In all seriousness, just asking the benefits of VB is a very open ended questions, benefits over a competitor etc?

Straight forward interface, easy to create snapshots of your VMs, and integrates with Vagrant (quick download and creation of pre-boxed images). Allows for a simple and effective labbing environment without a huge learning curve.