User Reviews of IBM PowerVM & Oracle VM VirtualBox

Updated March 2024

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IBM PowerVM review

Atif Najam
Atif Najam
Chief Information Officer and Program Lead at Gatron Industries Ltd
A stable system for high-end data processing with a great support structure
The only problem with the IBM system is improving its hardware licensing model. For example, when you procure a server with 40 physical codes, you must also procure licenses to activate the codes. In Dell or any system, you procure the hardware and have the full right to use the hardware. For IBM, it's different because when you procure a...
Oracle VM VirtualBox review

reviewer1447101
Director of Engineering at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
A free and versatile open-source solution that supports multiple platforms and is...
It has some issues when you have some weird device drivers. For instance, when you have a weird sound driver working on your machine, and the VirtualBox needs to output the sound of the virtual machine into the sound driver of the physical machine, the bare metal, it doesn't work too well. If you tweak lots of drivers and play around with...

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