VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.
Oracle has released VirtualBox 4.1.12, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.1 which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the ChangeLog for details.
To install VirtualBox on Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Or Download Deb Packages Files:
- echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
- wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.1
- Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin i386 - AMD64
- Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/Mint 12 i386 - AMD64
- Ubuntu 11.04 Natty/Mint 11 i386 - AMD64
- Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick/Mint 10 i386 - AMD64
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid/Mint 9 i386 - AMD64
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy/Mint 6 i386 - AMD64
For other Distro's download from here.
Here you can find some Additional Extensions for VirtualBox like (Usb 2.0, etc).
Enjoy
