We performed a comparison between KVM and Oracle Linux based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."I think nine out of the ten supercomputers in the world use Linux KVM, so I think that attests to the fact that it is a scalable product."
"The product's scalability is good...It's a very stable product."
"If you are a Linux desktop user, KVM is the solution to go with if you have to start virtual machines with Linux or other operating systems with almost zero extra configuration needed."
"The key aspect is that the KVM directly interacts with the Kronos. There's no clear indication of indirect communication with Kronos. It is not linked to Kronos, and interaction is straightforward without any intermediaries."
"The most valuable feature is hypervisor. I can host at the same time different operating systems in Linux Windows."
"If you prefer command-line, there are all kinds of command-line options."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"The GUI interface makes the management of KVM easier than ever before."
"The solution has zero downtime and is easy to optimize right out of the box."
"I like the product's stable distribution. The tool offered us very good experience since it was very stable."
"The graphical interface is fine. And the documentation is extremely valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of the commands which take little time to learn."
"The performance, feasibility, and flexibility of the I/O subsystem are valuable to us."
"We don't have any failing cases. Oracle releases regular hot patches, so we don't have many difficulties."
"Oracle Linux is a secure solution."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The product must provide better performance monitoring features."
"Some things are pretty basic, and they could be more robust with more detail."
"The virtual manager and the graphical QEMU for KVM need some improvement."
"The speed is around thirty percent slower than another competitor. This would be something to work on."
"Support for VF is needed, where you can, for example, export from VMware to KVM."
"I have encountered difficulties in getting the tool's documentation."
"We would like to have a software lifecycle solution included in this solution. We can handle the software needed for KVM, but also the software that we provide. A lifecycle component would be very beneficial."
"I would like to see more focus on microservices and integration with Kubernetes or OpenShift."
"Pricing could be improved."
"Occasionally, we might get an alert to restart our database, and if we don't do it on our own, the system will do it automatically. That can cause downtime issues if your clients aren't expecting it."
"The solution needs to improve there their capability with most of the applications."
"It could be easier to reach a higher support level."
"They should improve in the area of entertainment applications for the average user."
"What we found in moving from Oracle Linux 6 to Oracle Linux 7 was the whole interfacing with the application and the fact that operating had all changed, all the commands had changed. You need to be aware that there is some kind of training, some kind of handover required for your technical guys, understanding different ways of interacting with it. Bear that in mind."
"There can be improvements to the documentation capabilities."
"In the next release, I would like for Autonomous Linux to be available to all users so that the OS administration can be automated."
KVM is ranked 4th in Server Virtualization Software with 39 reviews while Oracle Linux is ranked 3rd in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 108 reviews. KVM is rated 8.0, while Oracle Linux is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of KVM writes "Delivers good performance because of kernel-based virtualization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle Linux writes "The operational system is the best and is packed with free features like CapsLive". KVM is most compared with Proxmox VE, Oracle VM VirtualBox, Hyper-V, VMware vSphere and Odin Virtuozzo Containers, whereas Oracle Linux is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, CentOS, Rocky Linux, Oracle Solaris and Windows 10.
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