Oracle VM VirtualBox Reviews

I primarily use the solution for testing purposes. Oracle VM VirtualBox is used majorly for creating virtual machine servers, Windows servers, specifically for Windows 10 or 11 clients. The solution is further used to configure multi-directories and implement the testing process. 

The solution is highly user-friendly and compatible with almost any operating system. The tool is also free to use as it's an open-source solution. 

The interface options of the solution should be more user-friendly and easy to comprehend. For instance, when I am using the solution on full screen mode, sometimes I am unable to identify how to exit the present screen. 

Oracle VM VirtualBox should have a community to ask certain technical queries. 

I have been using the solution for five years. 

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a highly stable solution. I would rate the stability an eight out of ten. 

I expect great scalability from the solution. 

I would rate the initial setup a nine out of ten. The solution can be very easily deployed. It takes just a few minutes to install Oracle VM VirtualBox. 

The solution is available for free use. 

At our company, we use the solution in the production environment. I would advise others to try it because it is great for beginners, doesn't require any technical knowledge, and can be easily learned. I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

I use Oracle Virtualbox to create different virtual operating systems, including Ubuntu, Kali Linux, Windows, and Metasploit.

I like that Oracle VM VirtualBox has snapshots with which I can always go back to when my OS was functioning properly, and then I easily clone an OS without having to install it all from scratch.

Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool. I think Oracle has to come up with something that makes VM VirtualBox compatible with different antivirus applications. Though you can get Oracle VM VirtualBox running properly even without an antivirus tool, it keeps you vulnerable.

I have experience with Oracle VM VirtualBox.

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. I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.

Positive

I have experience with KVM. I have used KVM since my company did software testing for four months. I also use other virtualization services.

I rate the overall product an eight out of ten.

I use it because my desktop is on Linux, and sometimes I need to open Microsoft Office or some VPN, which cannot use Linux. I start my VM Windows just to connect to some VPNs or to launch Microsoft Office.

Improvement-wise, the product needs to be made scalable.

I have experience with Oracle VM VirtualBox. Also, I am using the solution's latest version.

It is a stable product.

The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a three out of ten.

I have not contacted technical support.

The initial setup was easy.

It is an open-source solution.

It's a good product. I often use the product, and there is no problem. So, I would recommend the product to others planning to use it.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I use Oracle VM VirtualBox to provide my clients with performance, security, and scalability enhancements.

I like that Oracle VM is safe and stable. It is also very easy to administer. For example, opening a VM or adding a host adapter is extremely easy.

The most attractive feature in Oracle VM is that it's free except for the extension pack.

Oracle VMs don't have a solid web interface of their own. This is an area where Oracle is lagging behind. Now, we use headless servers, install Oracle VMs, and manage them remotely. We could use phpVirtual Box, but it is a third-party solution. A lot of people contribute to it, and it's not authenticated by Oracle. As a result, I don't find it to be a good option. Therefore, I would like to see Oracle offer an extension pack or a licensed version that fixes this problem.

I've been using this solution for almost four years.

It's a stable solution, and I would rate stability at ten out of ten.

Oracle VM VirtualBox's scalability is good, but resizing of storage can be a bit challenging sometimes. I would give scalability a rating of eight out of ten.

I focus mostly on SMEs, particularly those who run their enterprise solutions on cloud-based services.

The initial deployment is quick and takes about 10 minutes.

I deploy it and maintain it myself, along with the help of an administrator.

Price wise, Oracle VM VirtualBox is a six on a scale from one to ten.

I would definitely recommend Oracle VM VirtualBox. It can work from your laptop, and even a a loop configuration laptop is more than sufficient for testing. Another advantage is that it has teleporting, and you can also directly port your virtual machine configuration into Oracle cloud.

Overall, I would rate Oracle VM VirtualBox at eight out of ten.

I use the solution for personal use and in a professional environment. We use a couple of them. We use it to prepare environments to deploy them on another VM environment like VMware. We need to prepare the machine for the quality and we use this. 

Overall, the solution works very well and we have been happy with it. 

It's easy to configure it on my desktop, have it certified, and then export it to VMware Center.

It's very simple to use.

We like the stability.

The solution can scale well.

To make changes, you need to use the command lines. You need to use them to change the volume or extend or re-sync the volume. We've tried to do so using the web manager and it's not working well. Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement. We'd like the command line to manage the VDI disk.

I've used the solution from the beginning, from the very first one. It's been more than five years. 

The stability of the product is quite good. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

I find scalability quite easy. I'm used to it and I know how to handle it. 

We have about ten to 20 people using the product. A few use it on-premises, for example, for the larger service. All people will use it in the cluster.

I've never had to contact technical support and therefore cannot rate their services. 

I've also tried VMware solutions. It's not as fast, the VMware. 

The initial setup is very simple and straightforward. It's not overly difficult or complex. 

The deployment is very fast. It takes less than five minutes. It's easy to implement even by yourself.

We have ten technical people using the resolution and helping to deploy and manage it. They are IT managers and engineers. 

It's easy to deploy. You do not need assistance. 

We're still dealing with POCs. In the future, if it works okay, we'll try it in a larger environment. 

I'm just an end-user. 

We are using the latest version of the solution.

The whole solution we are trying to study for large infrastructure and we are making POC of that process. If this works, we will try to generalize it on an older platform.

I'd advise people to try it. It's very simple and easy to deploy.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.

I primarily use the solution to build a machine and transfer it to vCenter. I also occasionally use it to transform from a VirtualBox machine to an ESXi machine.

The solution is very convenient and easy to use.

I tend to use it for personal use, and I also use it for testing the Fortnox platform and it works very well.

The starting and stopping of the machine are much faster than other solutions.

The pricing is reasonable.

The solution needs support for the USB 3. 

The solution needs to improve the methods used for starting and stopping the machine.

The product needs to make dramatic changes to the guest machines. For example, they need to improve changing the disks, and the resources used and to make the back and forth transfer to other platforms like Nutanix, VMware, or Microsoft.

I've been using the solution for five years now.

The solution is very stable when you start the machine. We don't experience bugs or glitches. It works quite well.

The personal version isn't so scalable. You have to shut down the guest and change the parameters and restart the guests.

The solution leverage a passionate user community that is very, very informed. There's lots of documentation within the community that is quite helpful.

I've never actually contacted Oracle directly. I rely on what's online to assist me when I need to troubleshoot something.

I did, however, use the official support for VMware, and I took advantage of insights I could find from their community as well. I found VMware lacks clear documentation for a lot of items, especially if you were integrating with virtual storage other than VMware or Dell.

I've previously worked with VMware and Workstation. In those cases, the starting and stopping of the machine took far too long. Oracle is much faster.

The pricing is lower for VirtualBox. It's much cheaper than VMware, for example, which has very high pricing in comparison.

We're just Oracle customers. We don't have any business relationship with the solution.

We're using the latest version of the solution.

While I can recommend the solution for personal use, in a professional context, I've never actually tried it. A company would have to do some research first to ensure it fits their needs.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten overall if I was rating it on personal use alone.

I use this for development tests only on my personal laptop.

I am able to perform small developing tests.

I like that it is free and runs on Linux/Ubuntu - I wouldn't use any other solution.

There are a few bugs that need to be updated.

I used this product very briefly on my Linux laptop.

I think that it is a stable solution. It is small, light, and can virtualize my development for testing.

I have not needed to use their support. I have been able to resolve issues myself and/or via Google search.

Initial setup was quite easy, took five minutes in total and I was able to do it by myself.

I would rate my ROI a four out of five.

No licensing is required as it is open-source.

I would recommend this solution for single users only - not for production servers or any other big servers.

We use this solution to quickly set up and test our new software releases on different operating system versions.

We used this for onboarding applications running on smaller equipment, as we noticed that it uses less resouces compared to other hypervisor systems.

This helped our passengers to get better services while travelling, such as entertainment, movies, games, details about the trip, et cetera.

The images used can easily be shipped with the onboard hardware.

We can also port or convert other types of images too.

It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge.

It uses less resouces, which is a requirement as it is used on onboard hardware with very litle resources available.

Our development using new operating system releases can quickly be made. In some cases, we can set up the client's environment and perform local investigations to give competitve and qualyfied results for the customers to help reinforce our general reputation.

We keep our build and package down, and only start them when performing nightly builds.

It is easy to set up and makes it easy to protect VM guests running on the systems by IBM Spectrum Protect.

We use SPFS to mount the Spectrum Protect storage as a local filesystem and store our VM backups on that drive-letter or filesystem which sends data to the IBM Spectrum Protect storage.

The backup retentions are centrally managed from the IBM Spectrum Protect backup server.

We can browse and decide which of the backups to restore directly from the Virtualbox system.

This makes data protection very easy to use without special knowledge from agents.

We are using the free version of Virtualbox, so we have not tested the commercial solution.

That said, having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great.

The ability to emulate other types of CPU and hardware, such as PowerPC in both Little Endian and Big Endian, ARM CPU, s390x CPU architectures, and possibly older CPUs such as Motorola would be helpful. This would make the development of new software releases faster and easier.

In general, it is a good and stable product to use. We love it!  

I've used the solution for several years.

We've found the stability to be good.

The scalability is good.

We have never had a need to use technical support so far. 

Neutral

We previously used VMware and Proxmox KVM.

In terms of the initial setup, it's pretty easy to implement. 

We handled the initial setup in-house.

The ROI we've witnessed so far has been good.

We use the free solution; so we can't comment on the pricing at the moment.

We did also look at Proxmox KVM.

For simplicity, I'd advise users to use a backup method that is easy to use and to adapt to hypervisor solutions.

We use SPFS as it helps our clients to backup and restore in the way they understand.