Oracle defines personal use as the installation of the software on a single host computer for non-commercial purposes. The separate “VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox extension pack” providing support for USB 2.0 and 3.0 devices, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), disk encryption, NVMe and Preboot Execution Environment (PXE). It allows for other operating systems (known as Guests) to be installed and run within an existing operating system (known as the Host).Īll of the features are available in Free version as well for personal use and not for commercial use. It was initially built & developed by Innotek GmbH and it was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, later it was acquired by Oracle in 2010 and currently being developed by Oracle Corporation. VirtualBox (formerly known as Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and Innotek VirtualBox) is an open source cross-platform virtualization software for x86 architecture and run on Linux, Windows & Mac. I prefer virtualbox because i was using more than 4 years. Not only virtualbox, also you can use other alternatives such as QEMU, VMware Workstation Player, etc. both host-modules described in arch wiki virtualbox entry:Īdditional settings see 'tested' section aboveĮverything else is set to default from fresh install of virtualbox on arch hostĬompositor: Wayland Attachments VBox.log (126.64 KiB) Downloaded 15 times ced0ps Posts: 6 Joined: 17.If Windows user wants to test Linux distribution, or Linux user wants to try other Linux distributions, i would advise you guys to use Oracle Virtualbox to test this because virtualization software wont harm anything on your system. This error is repeated until the guest is killed.īooting the exact same configuration with 'EFI mode: false' works perfectly. Guest starts but only shows a black screen.Įrror from the attached log in line 1286:Ĭode: Select all Expand view Collapse view 00:00:02.080033 ERROR : aRC=VBOX_E_VM_ERROR (0x80bb0003) aIID=, preserve=false aResultDetail=-37

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