We performed a comparison between Hyper V and Oracle VM Virtual Box based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results:
Our users like Hyper-V best. Many of our users are deeply committed to the Microsoft ecosystem, so it is an excellent seamless fit. Additionally, users find the failover feature very important and, as Hyper-V is not a heavy solution, it does not overuse resources. Hyper-V makes it easy to move any virtual machine across push servers without complication. Finally, Hyper-V is very easy to manage and offers great performance.
"This is the best solution for customers with budget constraints."
"There are two very good things about this product including licensing and stability."
"The initial setup is simple. There's not much to do. We input one command or just one or two clicks on the UI. Initial setup in the Windows environment for any software is not that difficult."
"The performance is very good."
"I like that it's easy to use."
"The solution is stable and the cost is reasonable."
"Microsoft has documentation that is easy to find, helpful, and readily available."
"It is stable."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"I like that it is free and runs on Linux/Ubuntu - I wouldn't use any other solution. I am able to perform small developing tests."
"Technical support is good."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge."
"It's very simple to use."
"The installation is easy."
"We'd like a template feature to help deploy VMs quickly."
"We've had many issues with Hyper-V's stability, including resource crunches and memory leakage."
"The product can be a bit difficult to use."
"If you have a bigger implementation, you need more tools to coexist with many, many features that are not present in the base Hyper-V."
"Failure capabilities are insufficient for disaster recovery."
"Hyper-V requires improvement with manageability."
"It would be nice if they provided a free management console that we could use to manage all of the hosts for no additional fee."
"I'd like to see better predictive diagnostics, so I know what's going on with the machines."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"It would be good if we could use Hyper-V Windows subsystems with Linux and VirtualBox on the same instance. Currently, to be able to use VirtualBox, we have to restart the machine into an instance of Windows where Hyper-V is disabled, which is understandably very inconvenient."
"Having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
Hyper-V is ranked 3rd in Server Virtualization Software with 47 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 6th in Server Virtualization Software with 11 reviews. Hyper-V is rated 7.6, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Hyper-V writes "It's a low-cost solution that enabled us to shrink everything down into a single server ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "Easy to set up with good data protection and a free version of the product". Hyper-V is most compared with VMware vSphere, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, KVM and Citrix Hypervisor, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Oracle VM, VMware Workstation and VMware vSphere. See our Hyper-V vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox report.
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