Cloning a VirtualBox VM in VirtualBox 4.1
With Oracle VirtualBox 4.1 cloning a VM is now available from the user interface making the process much simpler. In prior releases cloning a VM was a multi step process in which you needed to use the command line utility VBoxManage clonehd to create a clone of the virtual device and then attach that new image to new virtual machine.
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Creating Shared Drives in Oracle VM VirtualBox
If you would like to experiment with Oracle RAC and ASM/ACFS in your Oracle VirtualBox environments you will need to create drives that can be read and written to by multiple VMs concurrently. VirtualBox 4.0 supports the creation of shared drives.
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Cloning a VirtualBox VM
I make frequent use of virtualized environments for testing and proof of concept work. One of the many great features of virtualized environments is that I do not have to start from scratch every time. I build base systems with the configured OS and any necessary software. Using these base systems I can spin up a new machine and get to the interesting work quickly.
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Create and mount VirtualBox shared folders
VirtualBox is an Open Source x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product. Using VirtualBox you can install many x86 32bit and 64bit operation systems in a virtual machine. The computer that you install VirtualBox on is commonly called the host machine and the virtual machine is called the guest machine. You can find out more about VirtualBox and download the software from http://www.virtualbox.org