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."Ability to move your virtual machines from one host to another."
"We can easily migrate VMs from one host to another."
"The feature I find most valuable, is its performance"
"The solution's security is its most valuable aspect."
"The price is the solution's most valuable feature."
"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."
"The solution integrates well with other solutions, which makes it really strong as a primary solution to deploy."
"I find it very easy to manage and at a cost that small customers would never refuse (free)."
"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to manage multiple operating systems through one application."
"I like that it has a snapshot feature."
"The flexibility and the closed platform, so it allows you to run in multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, Macintosh."
"This product is very user-friendly and easy to use."
"It's very simple to use."
"The pause feature is valuable. I can pause, which is something that not all hypervisors allow. The snapshot feature is also valuable."
"Citrix is not investing in the virtual surroundings."
"I think the technical support could be better."
"The product could be faster and licensing options 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."
"Network management needs improvement because it is not very stable."
"We'd like them to add more automation to the product."
"Live migration is something that can be improved."
"There are several areas that need improvement including the stability of the networking stack and networking management."
"The solution has to do a better job of promoting the product and its licensing capabilities."
"The solution is not flexible."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"The communications setup lags. It does not connect properly so the batching and networking is a bit slow."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"We're working with them to be able to allow the local USB ports to be ported over to the remote desktop, running VirtualBox."
"They could improve the graphics functionality of the product."
"It should have the functionality where if I move the mouse away from one screen, the context changes automatically."
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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