We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and Oracle VM VirtualBox based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Oracle VM has a slight edge in the comparison. It is a mature, stable, and flexible solution. One area where Oracle VM VirtualBox did come out on top, however, was in the ease of deployment category.
"Its ease of management and simplicity are most valuable. It is free, and you can provision an unlimited number of VMs at no cost for clients. They also provide perfect support."
"We've noticed that when working with Citrix with our Oracle clients who also use Oracle Linux, the monitoring and testing is simpler and easier for us to do."
"Cloning is the best feature in Oracle VM."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"The network capabilities are good."
"It's quite stable."
"The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"The solution is very stable."
"The installation is easy."
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to manage multiple operating systems through one application."
"This is a good and easy solution for running virtual environments."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox has a platform where the support team responds to frequently asked questions by its users. Every time I have had issues with Oracle VM VirtualBox, I always get a solution from Oracle's online platform or GitHub."
"The automatic start of the product to work as a background process has shortcomings and needs improvement."
"The usage could be easier, and more user-friendly."
"The tool's price and stability could be better."
"We do have a little trepidation with systemd, as it does have a learning curve."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"With our current OVM Manager version, migrating a VM from one repository to another repository was really complicated, especially editing and manually matching the configuration."
"Oracle VM should be more feature-rich."
"The management can be improved more, and become more agile. It would be nice for it to become more rich in terms of UI. In addition, the replication to disaster recovery needs improvement."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"Having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The AI and the UI could be improved. The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."
"The solution has to do a better job of promoting the product and its licensing capabilities."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
"The solution should have more enterprise features, like migration, high availability storage, disaster recovery, and the ability to deploy to enterprise-scale usage. They should not just offer desktop usage."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 76 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 61 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 7.8, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle VM writes "A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "The solution is versatile, simple to use, and stable". Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V and RHEV, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Hyper-V, VMware Workstation and VMware vSphere. See our Oracle VM vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox report.
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