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Earlier, we were using Oracle VM, which was a little better than KVM, especially in terms of user-friendliness and implementation.
View full review »I used to use another hypervisor, but licensing just bored me, so I found KVM. It is powerful and open source and it has a very big support community.
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KVM
March 2024
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reviewer1977888
Co-Owner at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
We have used VMware and Microsoft Hyper V, among others, and then changed to KVM. I was not happy with Hyper V at all as we didn't want to use any Microsoft domain, and Hyper V needed us to use it. KVM allows us to avoid Microsoft.
View full review »I have worked with VMware before KVM. You need a subscription and license to work with VMware. VMware has features like vMotion and storage vMotion. KVM has the same features as well. The main difference between the two is in licensing costs.
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Georges ESSOMBA
Business Engineer and Consultant at All-Tech
KVM is a perfect alternative to commercial solutions in the market such as VMware, especially when it comes to stability. In my experience, KVM is more stable than VMware.
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Dimitar Kavrakov
CEO at iSolute Ltd
I provide other solutions like VMware virtual desktop and ESXi server.
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reviewer2291406
Technical Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
My company has experience with Oracle Linux VM and Oracle VM apart from KVM. KVM and Oracle Linux VM are more stable and flexible compared to other products in the market. My company does not recommend products from KVM's competitors since we have an Oracle-centric environment, and most of the time, we get VMs with Oracle licenses only. Oracle VM will not do anything to improve the product since it can be described as an end-of-life product.
View full review »We previously used Red Hat but the Hypervisor is excellent with KVM and more stable.
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VascoCampos
System Engineer at NoBoring Lda
I have been using VMware, ESXi, and Linux and will continue to use them while I get more experience with KVM.
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Buddy Parker
Founder at Element Flux
I didn't previously use a different solution. I just recently got this server.
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Ernesto HernáNdez
Project Leader at Logicalis
We were using VMware prior to KVM. It is a very reliable and very strong solution, but it is also very expensive. We are switching to try and reducts cost both in terms of licensing and managing.
View full review »I have previously used VMware and KVM is easier to use. However, they both have their strengths depending on their use cases. They are mostly equal. One of VMware's advantages is it has better support.
View full review »I used Xen in the past and switched because the customers requested a solution which allows running a guest with its own Kernel. This is also possible with Xen, but not a common use case, though.
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reviewer1651380
Solution Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We have used Baremetal.
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Mahdi Bahmani
Solution Architect, IT Consultant at Merdasco - Rayan Merdas Data Prosseccing
I have used XenServer and VMware, and the performance of KVM is better than these.
When it comes to management, integration, business continuity, and live migration, KVM is lacking features and VMware is better in this area.
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reviewer807690
Principal Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are currently using VMware in our production environment.
View full review »We previously used VMware but switched to KVM because it is an open ecosystem and we see there is a benefit in open source solutions.
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Software512a
Software Architect with 501-1,000 employees
We previously used VMware.
View full review »I previously used VMware VM VirtualBox and then Workstation Pro. I switched because VMware is not free.
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KVM
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about KVM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,667 professionals have used our research since 2012.