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Designed for enterprise and home use, it is a virtual machine solution that helps control multiple virtual machines, manage multiscreen resolutions, connect with iSCSI storage servers, and more.
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So I'm very familiar with the features it should have, and I've found virtual box to be a great choice. It is high quality, stable, mature, and has the features you need for the price.
Sometimes when an update is released it might have a problem with OS systems you are trying to start which is annoying or time wasting process until a patch comes out.
It allows me to run any OS Software that is compatible and you can modify the settings of the VM to your needs for the best performance, that has to be the best thing I like about this software.
Sometimes it may crash due to VM errors. It may be confusing to configure internet connection.
VirtualBox was great as I have a Windows laptop and needed to use a Linux environment. As someone unfamiliar with Linux/Ubuntu, this was a great way to learn what the OS is like.
Speaking of negative points, the lack of a button to clone a machine, this slows down the work and management.
I use it mostly for checking stuff in IE11 and Edge browsers. Great that it is possible to install different Win version and also different IE version, really important and useful for testing.
Sometimes, virtual operating system gets stuck and we have to restart the virtual box again to make it work.
Great way to have a powerful workstation with outstanding network speed for remote workers.
The only bad things I experienced integrating to/using soft drive were user error.
Very easy to implement; excellent value for money and its incredibly reliable even when the internet connection isn't great.
That's really the biggest inconvenience though so to me Softdrive is more than worth that short term inconvenience.
I like working with people that a fun to work with, and [SENSITIVE CONTENT] has been wonderful to work with. He has helped us every step of the way.
If the internet is slow, it can make using the virtual machine difficult and cause it to lag.
Integration was super easy, and it felt like I was working on a local machine pretty much right away. I really enjoyed using soft drive and I would recommend it to anyone.
At the moment Softdrive does not have support for microphone or webcam which makes meeting a little bit of a hassle, but they have said that these features will be coming within the next few months.
Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Grant. I'm a Senior Cloud Engineer. I would give VirtualBox a rating of three out of five stars. Click below for more reviews like this. Previously to using VirtualBox, we tried a few different other platforms in order to virtualize a testing environment. I would say that VirtualBox definitely has its limitations, but we found it to be pretty good. We chose VirtualBox after looking around on the market and we found not only was it free, and it seemed to be quite well-maintained and up-to-date, the product just seemed to work for us, pretty good. We found getting started with VirtualBox pretty simple. It's not exactly difficult to get installed on either a Mac or a Windows machine. I mean, we were up and running within a few days. I would say to anyone looking around, VirtualBox is definitely one to look at. It does have some limitations, compared to its competitors. But purely due to the fact that it's, number one, free, and number two, highly maintained and up to date, definitely have a look at it.
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