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."I've found the following features to be the most valuable: user personalization layer, app layering, provisioning, and notification services for integration between different domains."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"This solution allows the end users to clone, start, stop, or remotely control their VMs."
"The support for this solution is phenomenal."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"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."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to manage multiple operating systems through one application."
"The solution has high performance and is easy to use."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"I like that it is free and runs on Linux/Ubuntu - I wouldn't use any other solution. I am able to perform small developing tests."
"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."
"The installation is easy."
"This product is extremely easy to install, use, has a great GUI and is incredibly stable."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"The USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"Overall, I can't think of a feature that is lacking. We've been pretty satisfied overall."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"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."
"Oracle’s support team should improve its response time."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"The solution is not flexible."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"It would be good if we could use Hyper-V Windows subsystems with Linux and VirtualBox on the same instance. Currently, to be able to use VirtualBox, we have to restart the machine into an instance of Windows where Hyper-V is disabled, which is understandably very inconvenient."
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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