What are the differences between QEMU and VirtualBox? [closed]

Basically both have features which the other does not have, so this might ease the decision. QEMU/KVM is better integrated in Linux, has a smaller footprint and should therefore be faster.

VirtualBox is a virtualization software limited to x86 and amd64 architecture.
Xen uses QEMU for the hardware assisted virtualization, but can also paravirtualize guests without hardware virtualisation.
QEMU supports a wide range of hardware and can make use of the KVM when running a target architecture which is the same as the host architecture.

Xen is a Type-1 hypervisor where VirtualBox and QEMU are considered as Type-2 hypervisors (also there might be a debate considering kvm being a kernel module).

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