What is Oracle Virtual Box and of course, why do we need to know about virtual box?
Well, for this course you do need to install sent OS Linux operating system on your computer.
And there are two ways you can install it.
One, you could remove the existing operating system that you have on your computer, or you could install
virtual box on top of your existing Windows operating system or Mac, and then you could install Centocelle
you this way you won't lose anything.
So basically, a virtual box is a free and open source hypervisor for 86 computers currently being developed
by Oracle Corp. It installed on your existing Intel or AMD based computers, whether they are running
Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris, it extends the capabilities of your existing computer so that it
can run multiple operating systems on one hardware at the same time.
Let's see how it works.
So you have when the hardware layer and then on top of it, you install the operating system.
Of course, it could be anyone you have that is Windows or Mac.
And then you install Oracle Virtual Box.
It's just a program, a software that you install on your machine like any other software that you would
install.
Once you have installed Oracle Virtual Box, then you could install Linux on it as a separate small
version of operating system.
You could have Windows on it or you could have Mac on it.
So this one, this virtual box allows you to have multiple operating system on a same hardware.