Jack Wallen shows you how to install the latest major release of the VirtualBox virtual machine manager.

Both VMware Player and Oracle VM VirtualBox can install directly from the .iso file. Read the original forum discussion. Contributing Editor Lincoln Spector writes about technology and cinema.

Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you.

Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you.

The VirtualBox Guest Additions gives a performance boost and extra features to your hosts. Follow these steps to install this package on a GUI-less Ubuntu server guest.