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."We find there are good central maintenance and central management panels."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"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."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"The solution is extremely user friendly."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"The solution is very stable."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge."
"The solution has high performance and is easy to use."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."
"This is a good and easy solution for running virtual environments."
"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 USB support for the virtual server needs improvement."
"It needs improvement with the security features."
"The solution needs better backup facilities that are available for virtual machines to create servers on."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"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 main problem with Citrix Hypervisor is getting readily available backup solutions for it. It would be wonderful if Hypervisor were better integrated with third-party backup solutions."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"The solution is not flexible."
"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."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"The solution needs to improve the methods used for starting and stopping the machine."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
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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