Virtualization Smackdown 2: Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2 vs. VMware Workstation 7.1 Two titans battle for desktop virtualization supremacy. Who will reign supreme?

VirtualBox is flexible enough to handle many types of 32-bit and 64-bit configurations. If you need to run a 32-bit version of XP in a 64-bit host, you can do that without any problems.

After entering beta roughly three months ago, Oracle’s VM VirtualBox 5.0 virtualization software is now generally available, offering faster performance and better security.

VirtualBox 3.2 beta is a free download for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. If you already know of some neat and, shall we say, unofficial OS X work-arounds that make use of VirtualBox, tell us ...