Oracle vm virtualbox extension pack drivers#
Oracle vm virtualbox extension pack software#
Oracle vm virtualbox extension pack license#

Oracle vm virtualbox extension pack software#

Since VirtualBox version 5.1.30 Oracle defines personal use as the installation of the software on a single host computer for non-commercial purposes.

Oracle vm virtualbox extension pack license#

The separate 'VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox extension pack' providing support for USB 2.0 and 3.0 devices, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), disk encryption, NVMe and Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) boot is under a proprietary license, called Personal Use and Evaluation License (PUEL), which permits use of the software for personal use, educational use, or evaluation, free of charge. The core package is, since version 4 in December 2010, free software under GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). 3.2.9 Since version 7.0 (in development).

Oracle vm virtualbox extension pack drivers#

For some guest operating systems, a 'Guest Additions' package of device drivers and system applications is available, which typically improves performance, especially that of graphics and allows changing the resolution of the guest OS automatically when the window of the virtual machine on the host OS is resized. It supports the creation and management of guest virtual machines running Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2, Solaris, Haiku, and OSx86, as well as limited virtualization of macOS guests on Apple hardware. There are also ports to FreeBSD and Genode. VirtualBox may be installed on Windows, macOS (up to 10.15 Catalina, no official support of macOS 11 Big Sur and later versions despite its availability for Intel-based Macs), Linux, Solaris and OpenSolaris. Created by Innotek, it was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, which was in turn acquired by Oracle in 2010. Oracle VM VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and Innotek VirtualBox) is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor for x86 virtualization, developed by Oracle Corporation. X86-64 only (version series 5.x and earlier work on IA-32) Д«ase Package ( USB support only for USB 1.1): GNU General Public License version 2 (Optionally CDDL for most files of the source distribution), 'Extension Pack' (including USB 3.0 support): PUEL

This is especially true as the internal organisation of Oracle appears to be quite competitive, and it's not unusual to be contacted by several separate departments within Oracle, each demanding that the fees be paid.Windows, macOS (only Intel-based Macs), Linux and Solaris This is something of a nightmare for smaller organisations that see a lot of guests, students or visitors. The licensing terms for the extension pack are quite expensive (minimum of 100 licenses at approx $60), and Oracle is fairly aggressive in tracking (by IP address) & pursuing companies that show as having downloaded the extension, even if that's only 1 or 2 people within the organisation. Oracle has chosen to provide the extension pack free of charge to individuals, yet will charge organisations, which makes sense for the when providing contracted support for large enterprises. Therefore the extension pack is provided separately, for the purposes of revenue generation, maintenance, and management of licensing. So, the technologies are provided under proprietary licenses.

A number of these functions are not open source and not covered under the GNU GPL. Now, Oracle also supplies the extension pack which provides useful additional functionality - virtual USB, Remote Desktop Protocol (VRDP) support, webcam passthrough, PXE boot ROM, PCI passthrough, ETC.

The base package of VirtualBox consists of open-source components and is licensed under the GNU General Public License. Created originally by Innotek, who were then purchased by SUN in 2008, now owned by Oracle.