Oracle VM VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and Innotek VirtualBox) is a type-2 hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle Corporation.

VirtualBox was originally created by Innotek GmbH, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, which was in turn acquired by Oracle in 2010.

VirtualBox may be installed on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Solaris and OpenSolaris. There are also ports to FreeBSD and Genode. It supports the creation and management of guest virtual machines running Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2, Solaris, Haiku, and OSx86, as well as limited virtualization of macOS guests on Apple hardware. For some guest operating systems, a “Guest Additions” package of device drivers and system applications is available, which typically improves performance, especially that of graphics, and allows changing the resolution of the guest OS automatically when the window of the virtual machine on the host OS is resized.

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License and, optionally, the CDDL for most files of the source distribution, VirtualBox is free and open-source software, though the Extension Pack is proprietary software. The License to VirtualBox was relicensed to GPLv3 with linking exceptions to the CDDL and other gpl incompatible licenses.

Release history

• 2010: VirtualBox 3.2, released 25-Jun-2010. Mac OS X Server guest support – experimental
• 2010: VirtualBox 4.0, released22-Dec-2010 (no longer supported, support ended 2015/12)
• 2011: VirtualBox 4.1, released 19-Jul-2011 (no longer supported, support ended 2015/12)
• 2012: VirtualBox 4.2, released 21-Sep-2012 (no longer supported, support ended 2015/12)
• 2013: VirtualBox 4.3, released 15-Oct-2013 (no longer supported, support ended 2015/12)
• 2015: VirtualBox 5.0, released 09-Jul-2015 (no longer supported, support ended 2017/05)
• 2016: VirtualBox 5.1, released 12-Jul-2016 (no longer supported, support ended 2018/04)
• 2017: VirtualBox 5.2, released 18-Oct-2017 (no longer supported, support ended 2020/07)
• 2018: VirtualBox 6.0, released 18-Dec-2018 (no longer supported, support ended 2020/07)
• 2019: VirtualBox 6.1, released 11-Dec-2019 (active maintenance)
• 2022: VirtualBox 7.0, released 10-Oct-2022 (active maintenance)