VirtualBox Portable: Free Download in English Download

VirtualBox Portable is a powerful tool for virtual PCs. In the face of multicore processors and falling storage prices, virtual machines become more and more interesting. With VirtualBox Portable, you can run a variety of operating systems as a Windows, Linux or Mac OS X virtual machine. With VirtualBox Portable, Oracle brings a reworked version of the popular open source virtualizer.


The new release and supports a large number of guest operating systems including 64-bit clients. You can create as many virtual PCs as you wish and run them in the window or full screen mode as desired. A desktop manager helps you share disk space and includes CD / DVD images as separate drives in the virtual environment. If a virtual PC crashes, you can close or restart the machine without affecting other guest systems or the host PC.


Many features in VirtualBox Portable are not obvious, but hidden in the depths of the program. VirtualBox Portable supports the connection of USB devices, the physical ports on the PC are, so to speak, extended to the virtual machine. This allows you to load or save files from USB sticks.


One of the smartest features of a virtual machine is backup points. In this case, VirtualBox Portable remembers the current state of the hard disk image and saves all subsequent changes separately. Later, it is not a problem to reject the changes and return to a backup point. The number of backup points is not limited.


The USB stick version of Virtualbox is particularly suitable if you want to use the virtualization software together with ready-made virtual machines on the road or on another computer without having to install the program there. The preparation for the use of the freeware is very simple: you unpack Virtualbox Portable on the USB stick and run the special starter, which opens the console of Virtualbox. Then, use existing wizards to create existing virtual machines or create new ones. With the user-definable control commands of the starter, you get a started virtual machine or the console in the foreground or hide it.


The host key is used to call certain functions of VirtualBox Portable, such as to leave a virtual machine. On Windows, it is the right [Ctrl] key by default, the current assignment is displayed in the VM window at the bottom right. To leave the virtual machine window window, press [Ctrl-right] and hold down the key.