Oracle VM VirtualBox is an open source, cross-platform virtualization software package for x86 and AMD64- or Intel 64-based computers from Oracle Corporation. It was developed by innotek GmbH and then taken over by Sun Microsystems in the year 2008. Now developed by Oracle, this product was formerly known as Sun VirtualBox. This book is specially designed to quickly help you get up to speed with VirtualBox and give you confidence and an understanding of virtualization. It covers a wide range of topics that will help you install, configure, and manage VirtualBox. It will also help in installing Oracle Enterprise Linux as a guest VM with a lot of advanced features of VirtualBox.
This book gives you clear step-by-step instructions to install and use VirtualBox on your Fedora desktop. These are also applicable for Red Hat, CentOS, and Oracle Enterprise Linux. It will also instruct you on how to run your guest VM on top of VirtualBox. This book is full of concepts and practical examples, and lists advanced features of VirtualBox that enable you to use it in a very simple way.
Chapter 1, Introduction to Virtualization, introduces you to the basics of virtualization. It discusses VirtualBox features, the high-level architecture of VirtualBox, and reasons to use virtualization.
Chapter 2, Installation of Oracle VM VirtualBox on Linux, teaches you how to install and configure VirtualBox on Linux desktops. It also provides detailed steps to start, update, and remove VirtualBox from Linux OSs.
Chapter 3, VM Creation on VirtualBox, teaches you how to create, start, stop, remove, and clone guest virtual machines, and also discusses some advanced and cool features such as snapshot, Clone, and VM groups.
Chapter 4, Installing OEL, teaches you the steps to install Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.0 as a guest OS and also talks about how to share a folder in both Windows and Linux. It also talks about memory management techniques in VirtualBox.
Chapter 5, Virtual Networking, provides detailed information on different networking options available in VirtualBox and how they work.
Chapter 6, Virtual storage, provides detailed concepts on different virtual storage options available in VirtualBox and how they work.