Virtualization With VirtualBox

 

ARTICA is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is a professional-quality virtualization solution with more features that Open Source Software.

Some of the features of ARTICA Technology are:

  • Modularity. ARTICA Virtualization Solution has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely.
  • Virtual machine descriptions in ARTICA. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in ARTICA Virtualization Solution  and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers, automaticly restart and monitoring.
  • Shared folders. Like many other virtualization solutions, for easy data exchange between hosts and guests, ARTICA Virtualization Solution allows for declaring certain host directories as "shared folders", which can then be accessed from within virtual machines.

A number of extra features are available):

  • Virtual USB Controllers. ARTICA Virtualization Solution implements a virtual USB controller and allows you to connect arbitrary USB devices to your virtual machines without having to install device specific drivers on the host.
  • Remote Desktop Protocol. Unlike any other virtualization software, ARTICA Virtualization Solution fully supports the standard Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). A virtual machine can act as an RDP server, allowing you to "run" the virtual machine remotely on some thin client that merely displays the RDP data.
  • USB over RDP. With this unique feature, a virtual machine that acts as an RDP server can still access arbitrary USB devices that are connected on the RDP client. This way, a powerful server machine can virtualize a lot of thin clients that merely need to display RDP data and have USB devices plugged in.