If you find yourself with a mismatched VirtualBox and VirtualBox Extension Pack release, such that VirtualBox itself cannot resolve, Jack Wallen shows you how to fix this from the command line.

Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you.

Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you.

Both VMware Workstation 7.1 and Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2 are excellent desktop virtualization products -- in terms of general Windows application usage, both perform extremely well and are ...

VirtualBox is now available for Apple Silicon-based Macs, although with spotty x86 support. Here's how to use it.

Parallels Desktop and VMware support DirectX 11. The new ARM-based version of VirtualBox is nowhere near as capable. It merely lets you install ARM-based versions of Linux on Apple silicon computers.

VirtualBox 4.2 appears to be another solid release for Oracle, putting the company one step closer to joining the conversation with VMware and Parallels products.