When the CPU has support to Virtualization Technology, the virtualization is said to be hardware-based or hardware-assisted.īoth VMware Workstation and Oracle VirtualBox take advantage of Virtualization technology to improve performance. With them, controlling software (called VMM, Virtual Machine Monitor) can be simpler, thus improving performance compared to software-based solutions.

The advantage is that, CPUs with Virtualization Technology have new instructions to control virtualization.

These days most of the processors, both from Intel and AMD comes with CPU based Virtualization technology. You can also view my video on YouTube on this topic. VirtualBox supports both 32 bit and 64 bit version of the various operating systems currently available.

Oracle VirtualBox is a virtualization software that allows you to run multiple Operating system on your host operating system without having the need to dual boot your computer. In this blog post, I will show you how to install Oracle VirtualBox 6.1.6 on Windows 10 along with Extension Pack.

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