VirtualBox

Oracle VM VirtualBox, often referred to simply as "VirtualBox", is an open source hypervisor developed by Oracle Corporation for the management of virtual machines that can run x86-based guest operating systems such as, Linux, Mac OS X Server, , , and Windows. Guest support for Mac OS X is limited to the server versions of 10.5 (Leopard) and 10.6 (Snow Leopard) for users who may need access to legacy PowerPC emulation through Rosetta.

History
innotek VirtualBox was originally developed in Germany by innotek [sic] GmbH and released on January 17, 2007 as an open source software package. The company was acquired by Sun Microsystems in February 2008 to complement its server products. On April 30, 2008, version 1.6.0 of Sun xVM VirtualBox added support for and Mac OS X. Sun itself was acquired by Oracle Corporation on January 27, 2010, which released subsequent versions, starting with version 3.1.4 of what would become Oracle VM VirtualBox.

Supported hosts
As of October 10, 2022, VirtualBox 7.0 requires one of the following 64-bit host systems with support for :
 * Linux (various) based on 2.6 or later.
 * macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or later.
 * A separate developer preview of an ARM64 installer package provides support for Apple silicon Macs, though a work-in-progress with modest performance through Apple's own Rosetta 2 emulation.
 * 11.4 or later.
 * Windows 8.1 or later.