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Full compatibility with Windows 11 is achieved in VirtualBox version 7.0.14 and higher. Host support. The supported operating systems include: Windows 8.1 and higher. Support for 64-bit Windows was added with VirtualBox 1.5. Support for 32-bit Windows was removed in 6.0. Support for Windows XP was removed with VirtualBox 5.0.
Virtual PC. Virtual PC is an x86 emulator for PowerPC Mac hosts and a virtualization app for Microsoft Windows hosts. It was created by Connectix in 1997 and acquired by Microsoft in 2003. The Mac version was discontinued in 2006 following the Mac transition to Intel, while the Windows version was discontinued in 2011 in favour of Hyper-V. [1]
Comparison of platform virtualization software. Platform virtualization software, specifically emulators and hypervisors, are software packages that emulate the whole physical computer machine, often providing multiple virtual machines on one physical platform. The table below compares basic information about platform virtualization hypervisors.
Microsoft Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian, and briefly known before its release as Windows Server Virtualization, is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems running Windows. Starting with Windows 8 , Hyper-V superseded Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT .
VMware Workstation is developed and sold by VMware, Inc. There is a free-of-charge version called VMware Workstation Player (known as VMware Player until release of VMware Workstation 12 in 2015), for non-commercial use. An operating systems license is needed to use proprietary ones such as Windows.
Current icon of VMware Workstation Player used since Version 15.0 in 2018. VMware Workstation Player, formerly VMware Player, was a virtualization software package for x64 computers running Microsoft Windows or Linux, supplied free of charge by VMware, Inc. [3] VMware Player could run existing virtual appliances and create its own virtual ...
Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) is a compiler for the C, C++, C++/CLI and C++/CX programming languages by Microsoft.MSVC is proprietary software; it was originally a standalone product but later became a part of Visual Studio and made available in both trialware and freeware forms.
Windows Vista. Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years earlier, which was then the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft Windows.