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.
"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."
"The stability is rock solid."
"It's a very flexible solution because you have all the commands that you can do yourself."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"It is very useful for the project management of our company."
"It is highly esteemed for its ability to efficiently optimize and enhance the operational speed and responsiveness of virtualized environments."
"Ability to patch with no downtime."
"What I like best about this product is that it's free."
"It is a stable product."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment"
"The flexibility as well as performance wise and as well as data volume, we have huge volume stored."
"The good thing is that it is multi-platform. Once you create a virtual machine in one particular environment, you can switch over to see if you can run it in other environments. For example, if you are on Windows and you create this virtual machine, you can actually go ahead and change the operating system. You can switch it over to Linux or Mac OS and see if you can run the VirtualBox on those particular machines. It even runs on some of the commercial operating systems that are not mainstream, such as Solaris and BSD. These kinds of operating systems are also supported by VirtualBox. The other thing that is good about VirtualBox is that it is open source. So, if you need to do any modifications for your own purposes, you can just download the source, modify it, and deploy it in your environment. It is pretty good and very versatile. You can create and manipulate virtual machines from the command line, which is also very important. It's something that some other products on the desktop side do not have. VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop don't have a good command-line interface to create and manipulate virtual machines, whereas VirtualBox has it out of the box, which is pretty good."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Oracle VM should be promoted more as an open-source and stable software."
"I would say third-party plugins to other storage vendors. There are a lot of converged infrastructure setups; one that we have, multiple different hardware vendors. So that would be something we could definitely be looking for."
"It was a complex setup. It was very difficult for me."
"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."
"You need to have a model for documentation available for the users. Right now, if you have to search for some troubleshooting, you need to have Oracle login. Many personnel might not have that login. The reach, the availability of information to the end-user, is not there."
"Its database management features could be better."
"The documentation for implementation could be improved because we were not able to find an easy way to implement our company's features due to a lack of understanding."
"One is the hypervisor. Right now, it’s all using Xen. What would be really helpful is to have some choice, and the underlying hypervisor technology use KVM which is very popular with certain workloads."
"Having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"The interface should be easier to comprehend"
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
"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 lacks some open source remote administration tools. The reload of individual virtual machine definitions through the vboxweb service (via its API) without restarting it and the access to shared storage (to use teleport functions) need to be improved."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 78 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 62 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 8.0, 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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