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 solution is extremely stable."
"The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"The ability to move a virtual machine while it is running is a big advantage."
"This is a good product for virtualization and it is easy to use."
"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."
"Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"This is a dependable solution for virtualization with a good community for product support."
"It's a pretty good product in terms of monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"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 stable."
"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"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."
"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."
"I would like the possibility of updating the hypervisor by applying security patches."
"You need a licensed account to look up technical support."
"The interface has to be updated."
"The solution should be more flexible and allow for greater customization."
"Assigning the order of virtual server startup is not very easy and this can be improved."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"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."
"The technical support needs to improve."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"Oracle needs to improve its hot virtual machine migration. It didn't work as intended. It should allow us to migrate between virtual machines, without stopping the database."
"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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