Oracle VM VirtualBox Stability

Gio Ramirez - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Advisor/ CEO at Xerif

The stability of the solution has improved over time. I rate it an eight out of ten. 

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Tomasz Pietas - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Manager at LPEC

The stability needs some improvement. It's less stable than I would like. Sometimes it gets hung up. For example, if I import some files from my students, the files cannot get removed. Instead, it crashes. 

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Said Mokhtari - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at TGR

The stability of the product is quite good. There are no bugs or glitches and it doesn't crash or freeze. 

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Kopano  Ramaphoi - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at SmartCloud

I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.

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Said Mokhtari - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at TGR

The solution is very stable when you start the machine. We don't experience bugs or glitches. It works quite well.

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SJ
Managing Director

It's a stable solution, and I would rate stability at ten out of ten.

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Christophe JOBARD - PeerSpot reviewer
President at Direction GRID SAS

It is a stable product.

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TD
IT Architect - AI at CGI

We've found the stability to be good.

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OL
Director of Engineering at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

For my users, it is very stable. We do home automation on it, and it works really well. It has some advanced features like auto restart of the virtual machine. If your virtual machine crashes, or even when you have a power outage and the server comes back up on its own, it spins off the virtual machines automatically. You don't have to do anything about it. It is pretty good.

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WS
Product Specialist at Schoemans Technologies

I find the solution to be exceptionally stable. I've no reason to look for other solutions, honestly, because it is so stable. It just fits into your network and it just runs. No matter what you are doing, even if you do it wrong, nothing fails. The worst that can happen is that you allocate more resources than you actually have on the hardware platform. If you misallocate your resources and require more memory for your virtual sessions than is physically available on the platform, then you run into a little trouble. It doesn't fail, it just becomes a bit slow. Or it could get very slow, I guess, if you are careless. But it has never failed for me.

We live in an exceptionally small country. We have probably the lowest number of people per square kilometer in the world. There is only a group of about 20 or 25 IT professionals that I know about in our country. All of them are using VirtualBox. They are using other solutions as well, like Windows Hypervisor and VMware. The only reason why they do not convert 100% to VirtualBox from Windows Hypervisor and VMware is that they have already invested the money it cost them to get those solutions in the first place.

So, while VirtualBox is absolutely free and they definitely use it in their companies, it cost money for their companies to invest in Windows Hypervisor and VMware. It will not go over well if they just move away from those solutions to VirtualBox because they have already purchased them.

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EN
IT Manager at a non-tech company with 51-200 employees

Oracle with VirtualBox rarely crashes since about version four onwards. It rarely crashes and rarely hangs. Although — I think it is on version six — sometimes I may take a snapshot and try to revert or even when I try to save a snapshot using Windows XP, sometimes the whole virtual machine crashes. But I am not sure if it is a fault with the software or something else because it only happens with one particular machine.

When you take three or four snapshots and you accumulate snapshots, it is as if at some point the snapshots get a bit mixed up in the machine, especially if you do not shut down. I have been helping some of my friends because they're not ready to move from XP. So I've gotten them to use Oracle VirtualBox for some solutions. One guy's machine crashed because they had been taking snapshot after snapshot. When we tried to restore it, we could not restore the machine back. So it happens, but rarely. But all in all, from Windows 7 downwards, I have not seen any problems with the VirtualBox. I actually love it. It's really stable for me.

I noticed also that if you do not shut it down regularly and you are constantly hibernating or pausing, that can be a really big headache. Sometimes the computer may freeze and you have to go back to the machine's original state.

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it_user418404 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Marketing Manager at Cloudian Inc

I have had no issues with the stability.

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it_user86316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Area Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

There is an issue with stability only when I used it with phpVirtualBox.

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Olajide Olusegun - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Team Lead at Atlas Security

The solution is stable.

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FK
Head Of Information Technology at a media company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I am unsure as to how stable this solution would be in a production environment. I have always thought of it as an R&D solution, as opposed to a production solution. It isn't a problem related to VirtualBox, but rather, simply how I have chosen to use it.

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it_user418230 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

I have had no issues with stability.

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Luís Silva - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technical Lead at Human Code

The solution is stable.

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it_user521889 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Sales Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

It has been consistently stable over the past year. We didn't have any down time. All of the images were always perfectly done.

It's funny; sometimes one of the IT departments would say, "Well, why don't you convert your VirtualBox to VMware?" That means I have to redo the whole thing. So, I said, "Forget it. I'll stay with this one." Don't add more fire to a fire. Just leave it as it is. If it isn’t working, then maybe you try to put it out with water, but that doesn't work sometimes. Just stay where it is. It’s meant to be like that.

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LS
Manager at Private Individual

I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly.

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ST
Founder at a retailer with 1-10 employees

It is stable. It is more stable than it used to be.

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Jetsada Malaisirirat - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at clusterkit

I think that it is a stable solution. It is small, light, and can virtualize my development for testing.

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SP
Systems Engineering at Atlantica Digital

I think VirtualBox has good stability because I use it in an environment with several resolutions. VirtualBox is able to use the full functionality and the powerfulness of the server I installed VirtualBox on this environment. So I, at the moment, I'm satisfied with the stability of the VirtualBox environment. I'm able to run several guest environments on one node.

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MI
Network and Infrastructure Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of stability, if we would have used it in the production, then I would have been able to comment on that. Since we used it only for the development environment and just for the testing it would be difficult to comment. We only used the solution for three months.

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it_user124704 - PeerSpot reviewer
PeopleSoft Administrator at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have had no issues with the stability.

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IS
Senior Principal Consultant at CCE

Sometimes it is not quite good. I have to research answers to re-stabilize the product I would give it a rating of eight out of ten in terms of stability.

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it_user435519 - PeerSpot reviewer
ERP System Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

There were some issues with the toolbar menu when using two monitors. In the end, I managed to get those issues resolved either with changing the virtual machine configuration or by updating to a newer version of Oracle VM Virtualbox.

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it_user136407 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Application Specialist at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Sometimes a VM doesn't start normally and I have to reinstall the product. It could be a combination of Windows' and Virtualbox's issues.

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EF
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Oracle VM VirtualBox is stable.

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MM
Pr. Scientist at PIEAS

There are not very many bugs in the application.

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Idris Aliyu - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 201-500 employees

The solution is very stable.

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it_user430674 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

We had no stability issues.

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it_user161850 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Design Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

Sometimes on the Windows version, the product hangs for reasons unknown, but the Linux version is very stable.

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it_user416094 - PeerSpot reviewer
Web Developer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

There have been no issues with the stability.

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VC
Sr. Director at LogiCorner Info Tech.

Oracle VM VirtualBox is stable. 

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it_user136770 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We've had no issues with stability.

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it_user266604 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Analyst with 51-200 employees

VirtualBox is a very stable product and we found no problems.

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it_user71118 - PeerSpot reviewer
e-Learning Systems Developer Analyst at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had no issues with the stability.

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it_user104151 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We had no issues with the stability.

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AT
IT Staff; Programmer at a university with 51-200 employees

The solution is very stable. It doesn't have bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable.

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OS
IT Infrastructure and Security Specialist

The solution is stable. It is great. 

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it_user801585 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Consultant at Oriental Weavers

The stability is okay, but it could be better.

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it_user87804 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
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it_user187272 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Infrastructure at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No stability issues were experienced.

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it_user104652 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

Sometimes the VirtualBox stops and the process cannot be killed. The computer then needs to be restarted.

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it_user430668 - PeerSpot reviewer
Clinical Applications Specialist at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

It works perfectly for the task. We've had no issues with instability. It's a solid open-source product.

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it_user436125 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Product Dev at a tech company

There were some small instability issues with version 5.0, but they seem to all be fixed now. It works perfectly.

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NS
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Oracle VM VirtualBox is stable.

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Buyer's Guide
Oracle VM VirtualBox
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Oracle VM VirtualBox. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.