We performed a comparison between KVM and Odin Virtuozzo Containers based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."If you are a Linux desktop user, KVM is the solution to go with if you have to start virtual machines with Linux or other operating systems with almost zero extra configuration needed."
"Scaling the solution is easy. You just have to add more hardware."
"One of the best features of KVM is its user-friendly interface."
"I find the density of the product most valuable. It is density that a technologist can just assign page merging. This is what makes KVM one of the important players of the virtualization market."
"KVM is stable."
"KVM has a rich options set which can be directly used or via wrappers, such as libvirt."
"This solution is open source and easy to configure."
"If you prefer command-line, there are all kinds of command-line options."
"When you run templates on the containers on Virtuozzo they have a lot of back-ups."
"Technical support could be better. In the next release, I would like to see an improved user interface and dashboard. This type of improvement will make it easy or help our engineers understand the solution from a requirement point of view."
"The main drawback in the solution is probably disaster recovery."
"The KVM tech support is really bad. They are not very responsive."
"Monitoring and resolution could be improved."
"The virtual manager and the graphical QEMU for KVM need some improvement."
"One problem I have is that it's not very scalable when it comes to resizing the VM disk dimensions. For example, if you have initially set a virtual drive to 10 GB and you want to upgrade it to 15 GB, it's not that easy."
"We are not getting good support from KVM, and it is not that user-friendly."
"The stability of this solution is less than other products in the same category."
"Odin Virtuozzo has poor support and needs to improve."
KVM is ranked 4th in Server Virtualization Software with 39 reviews while Odin Virtuozzo Containers is ranked 12th in Server Virtualization Software with 2 reviews. KVM is rated 8.0, while Odin Virtuozzo Containers is rated 6.0. The top reviewer of KVM writes "Delivers good performance because of kernel-based virtualization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Odin Virtuozzo Containers writes "Significant backup for containers, but the customer service is terrible". KVM is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere and ISPsystem VMmanager, whereas Odin Virtuozzo Containers is most compared with Proxmox VE, Nutanix AHV Virtualization, Hyper-V and VMware vSphere.
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