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VirtualBox

Last updated May 14, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is VirtualBox?

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. It allows you to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single physical machine. It's commonly used for testing software on different platforms, running legacy applications, creating development environments, and server consolidation.

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What other technologies are related to VirtualBox?

VirtualBox Competitor Technologies

Multipass is a virtualization tool by Canonical that can be used to create and manage Ubuntu VMs on Windows, macOS and Linux. It competes with VirtualBox in providing a lightweight VM environment.

mentioned alongside VirtualBox in 81% (81) of relevant job posts

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer that can be used as an alternative to VirtualBox for running virtual machines.

mentioned alongside VirtualBox in 8% (390) of relevant job posts

VMware Workstation and Fusion are direct competitors to VirtualBox, offering similar virtualization capabilities.

mentioned alongside VirtualBox in 1% (2.9k) of relevant job posts

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a virtualization infrastructure built into the Linux kernel. It is a competitor, as it provides an alternative way to run virtual machines.

mentioned alongside VirtualBox in 3% (724) of relevant job posts

Hyper-V is Microsoft's virtualization platform, a direct competitor to VirtualBox, especially on Windows.

mentioned alongside VirtualBox in 1% (762) of relevant job posts

Parallels Desktop is a virtualization solution for macOS, directly competing with VirtualBox on that platform.

mentioned alongside VirtualBox in 11% (55) of relevant job posts

Duplicate of Hyper-V, Microsoft's virtualization platform, a direct competitor to VirtualBox, especially on Windows.

mentioned alongside VirtualBox in 3% (245) of relevant job posts

Proxmox is a server virtualization environment, directly competing with VirtualBox especially in server environments.

mentioned alongside VirtualBox in 3% (199) of relevant job posts

VirtualBox Complementary Technologies

Vagrant is often used with VirtualBox to automate the creation and management of virtual machine environments.

mentioned alongside VirtualBox in 11% (918) of relevant job posts

HashiCorp Packer

Packer can be used to create virtual machine images for VirtualBox, automating the image creation process.

mentioned alongside VirtualBox in 12% (65) of relevant job posts

Ansible is an automation tool that can be used to configure and manage virtual machines created by VirtualBox.

mentioned alongside VirtualBox in 0% (1.1k) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention VirtualBox?

Job function

Jobs mentioning VirtualBox

Orgs mentioning VirtualBox

Engineer

0% (3.2k) job posts

91 organizations

Software Engineer

0% (2k) job posts

302 organizations

DevOps Engineer

0% (423) job posts

140 organizations

Systems Engineer

0% (319) job posts

109 organizations

Security Engineer

0% (212) job posts

67 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning VirtualBox?

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Professional Services

Manufacturing

Manufacturing

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Lockheed Martin

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