We performed a comparison between KVM, Oracle VM, and Oracle VM VirtualBox based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Proxmox, VMware, Microsoft and others in Server Virtualization Software."It is an open ecosystem, and we see there is a benefit in open-source solutions."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"Very cost-effective."
"I like that this is an open-source solution. It is very powerful, and it's easy."
"KVM has a rich options set which can be directly used or via wrappers, such as libvirt."
"The most valuable feature is hypervisor. I can host at the same time different operating systems in Linux Windows."
"The product's scalability is good...It's a very stable product."
"It is easy to use, stable, and flexible. It is a pretty mature product, and it is faster than VirtualBox."
"There's a lot of space to customize the solution if you need to."
"It's not a very expensive product."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"The biggest advantage of Oracle VM is that you can separate your clusters to get your licenses agreement in scope."
"I don't need to create a repository to allocate storage to my virtual machine, rather I can just use store locally."
"It's a very flexible solution because you have all the commands that you can do yourself."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"Virtualization platform that's easy to set up, and has good scalability and stability."
"I think VirtualBox has good stability because I use it in an environment with several resolutions."
"This is a highly scalable solution."
"The pause feature is valuable. I can pause, which is something that not all hypervisors allow. The snapshot feature is also valuable."
"Oracle VM Virtualbox is easy to use and does not require much training."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its stability."
"The scalability of the solution is very good."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The cloning is a very useful tool."
"The grid interface of KVM needs improvement. It could be more beautiful, especially when compared to VMware."
"In KVM, snapshots and cloning are areas where there could be a little more sophistication, like VMware."
"There are some issues with the graphics and some software that is very complex."
"Support for VF is needed, where you can, for example, export from VMware to KVM."
"We are not getting good support from KVM, and it is not that user-friendly."
"Monitoring and resolution could be improved."
"Some things are pretty basic, and they could be more robust with more detail."
"Business continuity features need to be added."
"One is the hypervisor. Right now, it’s all using Xen. What would be really helpful is to have some choice, and the underlying hypervisor technology use KVM which is very popular with certain workloads."
"If there are issues with the storage, then all the machines go down, even if I have a backup solution in place."
"I would like to be able to ship all of our logs. This feature could exist and I am just not aware of it."
"This solution is not as stable as other solutions in the market. But, Oracle has made an effort to improve these issues with recent updates."
"I've found that using Oracle VM is like stepping back in time. It's not kept up with technology. The only reason anyone uses it is that they're afraid of Oracle's licensing. Oracle has a tremendously bad licensing approach."
"It doesn't monitor everything, which is a little bit more difficult. It doesn't seem to have as many features or metrics to monitor as some others do, so you have to make some homemade scripts to do it."
"The performance could be better because I need to purchase a lot of CPUs to perform in the workbench."
"There is no memory over-subscription and CPU over-subscription. That has to be improved in terms of Oracle VM perspective. The other leading virtualizing software solutions have this feature."
"The product lacks scalability since it is for desktops and not for servers."
"This should have better support for multiple network cards and some parts of the GUI should be improved."
"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."
"When I select the Ubuntu operating system from within the virtual machine, it sometimes hangs."
"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."
"There are a few bugs that need to be updated."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox is not flexible, It's not like VMware."
"I think that this solution should be more user-friendly."
