We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and Oracle VM VirtualBox based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Oracle VM has a slight edge in the comparison. It is a mature, stable, and flexible solution. One area where Oracle VM VirtualBox did come out on top, however, was in the ease of deployment category.
"Overall, the biggest performance is around virtualization and automation, you can build private clouds with Oracle VM using Enterprise Manager."
"The product is simple and easy to use."
"Its technical support is quite good."
"The virtualization product Oracle puts out just complements the performance of the database."
"Oracle is probably the best database technology out there. I've never found anything as complete in terms of feature and functionality and sophistication."
"It is very useful for the project management of our company."
"What I like the most is the failover and the quick restore of virtual machines."
"The stability of the product is fine."
"I think VirtualBox has good stability because I use it in an environment with several resolutions."
"The good thing is that it is multi-platform. Once you create a virtual machine in one particular environment, you can switch over to see if you can run it in other environments. For example, if you are on Windows and you create this virtual machine, you can actually go ahead and change the operating system. You can switch it over to Linux or Mac OS and see if you can run the VirtualBox on those particular machines. It even runs on some of the commercial operating systems that are not mainstream, such as Solaris and BSD. These kinds of operating systems are also supported by VirtualBox. The other thing that is good about VirtualBox is that it is open source. So, if you need to do any modifications for your own purposes, you can just download the source, modify it, and deploy it in your environment. It is pretty good and very versatile. You can create and manipulate virtual machines from the command line, which is also very important. It's something that some other products on the desktop side do not have. VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop don't have a good command-line interface to create and manipulate virtual machines, whereas VirtualBox has it out of the box, which is pretty good."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to manage multiple operating systems through one application."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to copy bidirectionally between the desktop and the virtual machine."
"I like that it has a snapshot feature."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"It is a stable product."
"I like that it is free and runs on Linux/Ubuntu - I wouldn't use any other solution. I am able to perform small developing tests."
"There are issues with the solution's stability since it crashes."
"Oracle VM is not very stable. When you encounter any issue, it's unclear what is happening."
"I think more Command-Line options for the product, for deployments."
"The usage could be easier, and more user-friendly."
"Its database management features could be better."
"If you do a gap analysis between VMware and Oracle VM, you can't do VM Snapshot. That's one thing you can't do. It's a sort of a snapshot, but it's not really Snapshot technology. It requires that you're running on CFS-2."
"The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface."
"Oracle VM should have centralized storage, without which you can't clone or move one VM to another."
"The AI and the UI could be improved. The user interface is a little outdated and the AI is not very attractive."
"It could improve slightly with enhanced reporting capabilities that show the current status of the network."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't work properly with an antivirus tool."
"Oracle VMs don't have a solid web interface of their own. This is an area where Oracle is lagging behind. Now, we use headless servers, install Oracle VMs, and manage them remotely. We could use phpVirtual Box, but it is a third-party solution. A lot of people contribute to it, and it's not authenticated by Oracle. As a result, I don't find it to be a good option. Therefore, I would like to see Oracle offer an extension pack or a licensed version that fixes this problem."
"The solution should work to simplify the system. However, it should be flexible enough to allow for special cases."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"The solution needs to improve its flexibility. It's not as flexible as VMware."
Oracle VM is ranked 7th in Server Virtualization Software with 18 reviews while Oracle VM VirtualBox is ranked 5th in Server Virtualization Software with 10 reviews. Oracle VM is rated 7.8, while Oracle VM VirtualBox is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Oracle VM writes "Flexible solution with extensive features like OVM Manager, enabling you to avoid hard coding". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle VM VirtualBox writes "Simple to use, easy to configure, and reliable". Oracle VM is most compared with VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE, Hyper-V and RHEV, whereas Oracle VM VirtualBox is most compared with Proxmox VE, Hyper-V, KVM, VMware Workstation and VMware vSphere. See our Oracle VM vs. Oracle VM VirtualBox report.
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