Before it gets said, I know that nested virtualization is, in general, pretty awful. Im running MacOS Big Sur in a VMware Fusion VM, and inside of that VM, Im running Virtualbox. VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. Ive been trying to troubleshoot a problem Im having with Virtualbox on MacOS Big Sur 11.3.1 My environment is a little bit interesting. 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, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD. See " About VirtualBox" for an introduction.
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. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. VirtualBox is the most easiest way to run secondary OS on your primary operating system, If your hardware doesn’t allow you to install any other operating system then VirtualBox comes in hand. This starts the installer, which enables you to. A window opens, prompting you to double-click on the VirtualBox.pkg installer file displayed in that window.
Perform the following steps to install on a Mac OS X host: Double-click on the dmg file, to mount the contents.
Open Terminal and execute the following command. This is a command line tool that will do the conversion. Download and install the VMware OVF Tool. I'm running OSX Mavericks as host OS.I've had VirtualBox for a while, and I typically use bridged networking for the VMs I run on Vbox. Right-click and select Show Package Contents. Oracle today released a 6.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. Locate the file of the VMware virtual machine you want to convert. Looking for a new challenge? We're hiring a VirtualBox senior developer in 3D area (Europe/Russia/India). Looking for a new challenge? We're hiring a System Administrator/Quality Engineer (Germany). Looking for a new challenge? We're hiring a VirtualBox Principal Software Developer (US, UK, Romania).