We performed a comparison between Citrix Hypervisor and Oracle VM VirtualBox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Virtualization Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The compatibility of the solution is its most valuable feature. It's compatible on almost every cloud these days."
"The most valuable features are being able to host many virtual machines and being able to patch machines."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"Scripting can automate procedures."
"The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"This solution can be used on many different platforms including Windows and Linux."
"It is a stable product."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge."
"I think VirtualBox has good stability because I use it in an environment with several resolutions."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"This is a good and easy solution for running virtual environments."
"The solution has high performance and is easy to use."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"It can be useful to have a web management program because we have to install our client-server. We have to properly manage the host, if we had administration tools through a web interface it would be a benefit."
"The solution is too expensive and people are kind of moving away from Citrix. It's starting to become a problem. It is a primary reason that while we are rebuilding we're going to seek out open-source solutions."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"It has some issues when you have some weird device drivers. For instance, when you have a weird sound driver working on your machine, and the VirtualBox needs to output the sound of the virtual machine into the sound driver of the physical machine, the bare metal, it doesn't work too well. If you tweak lots of drivers and play around with the different kinds of drivers and machines, you will probably break something. I have not played with it too much and maybe it already supports it, but it would probably be good to have the ability to use a container from the virtual machine environment instead of spinning off a complete virtual machine. There are other tools for that. On Linux, you have a DXE, LXC framework, and you have Docker as well. Docker is good because it is multi-platform, and you can run Docker on pretty much anything, even different processors, but it would be good if we had a VirtualBox running on it while spinning off containers instead of full virtual machines. The other thing that will become important, and I'm pretty sure that they are thinking about it as well is that there's this new hardware platform that Apple is releasing, which is an ARM-based new chip. So, VirtualBox will probably have to work on ARM-based CPUs as well."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
"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."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"The solution has to do a better job of promoting the product and its licensing capabilities."
Citrix Hypervisor is ranked 8th in Server Virtualization Software with 45 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 61 reviews. Citrix Hypervisor is rated 8.2, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix Hypervisor writes "Good features, fair pricing, and excellent reliability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "The solution is versatile, simple to use, and stable". Citrix Hypervisor is most compared with Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, KVM, Hyper-V, Oracle VM and Nutanix AHV Virtualization. See our Citrix Hypervisor vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox report.
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