Can Virtualbox Read Vmware Machines?. Oracle VirtualBox, formerly Sun VirtualBox, is an open source virtualization platform that allows you to run multiple operating systems on a single machine.

Review: Free, open source VirtualBox lags behind VMware and Parallels Poor 3D support and lack of OS integration features hurt VirtualBox the most.

Sun is making the open-source, no-cost software more powerful, thus creating a good alternative to VMware Workstation and Parallels Desktop products.

Best of all, it’s free of charge. VirtualBox is, nominally, open source software, though you have to specifically download the ASE version to actually use the open source client.

VirtualBox is designed to be a low-cost alternative to products such as VMware Workstation, and is used primarily for development and testing, according to Sun. A programmer can build an ...

VirtualBox occupies the “free and open source” corner of the ring, while VMware Workstation is a proprietary commercial application.

The youngest virtualization player to enter the x86 virtualization market is Innotek. And the company has recently announced a new release of its product, VirtualBox version 1.4.0, for Windows and ...

I tried to use VirtualBox on my Windows 7 Intel Dell laptop, and it didn't work when I tried to run Ubuntu, Fedora and Mandriva, so I decided to scrap that and use VMWare instead, and VMWare worked.