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 find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"Citrix Hypervisor is quick to deploy and easy to manage."
"The initial setup is easy."
"This solution allows the end users to clone, start, stop, or remotely control their VMs."
"Citrix is easy to use and is stable."
"The continued uptime of our virtual machines is good."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"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."
"I like that Oracle VM is safe and stable. It is also very easy to administer. For example, opening a VM or adding a host adapter is extremely easy."
"The solution is very convenient and easy to use."
"VirtualBox provides an isolated, consistent environment"
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that there is no cost because it is open source."
"The solution has high performance and is easy to use."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to manage multiple operating systems through one application."
"The self-service user portal needs to be more granular and be more customizable."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"It needs to have a more robust backup solution."
"The graphics user interface is pretty bad."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"The interface has to be updated."
"The solution is not flexible."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
"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 memory and hardware usage could be a little bit lighter. Right now, it's quite heavy on the usage. The CPU usage should be lower."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
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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