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.

Oracle VM VirtualBox runs on standard x86 desktop and laptop computers and allows users to set up multiplatform virtual-machine environments for software development and testing. Using it, developers can create cloud and local applications without the overhead of a full server environment.

Now, with support for operating systems including Mac OS X Yosemite, Windows 10, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris and other Linux distributions, the new release of the cross-platform software improves performance by exposing a broader set of CPU instructions to the guest OS, Oracle said.

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