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 most valuable feature of the solution is that it is very fast. It also works very well for physically small servers."
"The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"Citrix Hypervisor is simple to use."
"What I like the most is the support of the GPU Graphics and the VM Live migration."
"It is quite flexible and rugged. It is also easy to understand and user-friendly. It is not as complicated as some of the other solutions. It has its technicalities, but it is easy to understand. You can easily pick up in a short period of time and understand how to manage the infrastructure."
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"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."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"The versatility, simplicity, and stability of the product are it's most valuable features."
"This product is very user-friendly and easy to use."
"It's very simple to use."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"The manageability of the solution needs improvement. It's an extremely bad product to handle."
"The product could be faster and licensing options could be improved."
"Integration with other vendors and other applications could be improved."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"The licensing costs are too high on the solution. They should work to make the costs more reasonable."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"The solution would benefit from faster technical support."
"The solution is a bit less stable than I would like."
"I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly."
"It's not as robust as server platforms, nor does it need to be."
"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."
"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 solution is not flexible."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
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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