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."This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"The onboarding process is pretty straightforward."
"Installing Hypervisor is really simple. It's the simplest setup I've ever done before. We used a team to deploy it, and it doesn't take much time, like two or three hours tops."
"The initial setup is easy."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The solution is very stable."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"The solution is very convenient and easy to use."
"The solution has high performance and is easy to use."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"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."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"The interface has to be updated."
"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"The built-in networking features are a little limited."
"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"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."
"One valuable feature would be for it to work right the first time but it doesn't necessarily do that."
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, VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, 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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