Oracle's Virtualbox is one of the most popular ways to create virtual machines, so here's how to take your first steps.

To install Fedora on Oracle VM VirtualBox, download the ISO File of Fedora, Install the VirtualBox, Set up VM, Boot with and Install Fedora.

If you want install Oracle Linux on Oracle VirtualBox, you can follow this guide to download the VM tool, ISO file, and create the VM.

Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool—but you'll have to do some tinkering to make it work for you.

For those times when you absolutely must still run Windows XP, one safer way of doing it is to run XP in a virtual machine using the Oracle VirtualBox hypervisor on Linux Mint.

Microsoft's own Windows Virtual PC is free but won't accept Windows 8 as a guest. Instead, you can use Oracle's VirtualBox or VMWare's VMWare Player 4.0. Both are free and both support Windows 8.

Oracle has confirmed it is working on a new version of its VirtualBox VM software that will adhere to the new Windows 11 requirements.