Oracle VM VirtualBox Stability
The stability of the solution has improved over time. I rate it an eight out of ten.
View full review »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.
View full review »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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April 2024
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I rate the solution’s stability an eight out of ten.
View full review »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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Shaerul Haque-Joarder
Managing Director
It's a stable solution, and I would rate stability at ten out of ten.
View full review »It is a stable product.
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reviewer1766661
IT Architect - AI at CGI
We've found the stability to be good.
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reviewer1447101
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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Werner-Schonborn
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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EdwardNjari
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.
View full review »I have had no issues with the stability.
View full review »There is an issue with stability only when I used it with phpVirtualBox.
View full review »The solution is stable.
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reviewer1197474
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.
View full review »I have had no issues with stability.
View full review »The solution is stable.
View full review »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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Lourens Steenkamp
Manager at Private Individual
I find the solution to be incredibly unstable, constantly falling over and not working properly.
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reviewer1455690
Founder at a retailer with 1-10 employees
It is stable. It is more stable than it used to be.
View full review »I think that it is a stable solution. It is small, light, and can virtualize my development for testing.
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StefanoPastore
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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reviewer1088610
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.
View full review »We have had no issues with the stability.
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Ignacio Salom
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.
View full review »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.
View full review »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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Emmanuel FOMUDE
Senior Oracle Database Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Oracle VM VirtualBox is stable.
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Muhammad Abid Mughal
Pr. Scientist at PIEAS
There are not very many bugs in the application.
View full review »The solution is very stable.
View full review »We had no stability issues.
View full review »Sometimes on the Windows version, the product hangs for reasons unknown, but the Linux version is very stable.
View full review »There have been no issues with the stability.
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Vincent Cheng
Sr. Director at LogiCorner Info Tech.
Oracle VM VirtualBox is stable.
View full review »We've had no issues with stability.
View full review »VirtualBox is a very stable product and we found no problems.
View full review »We've had no issues with the stability.
View full review »We had no issues with the stability.
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reviewer1451859
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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Ofrates Siringan
IT Infrastructure and Security Specialist
The solution is stable. It is great.
View full review »The stability is okay, but it could be better.
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New release may experience stability issues with a new guest OS such as Windows 8
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No stability issues were experienced.
View full review »Sometimes the VirtualBox stops and the process cannot be killed. The computer then needs to be restarted.
View full review »It works perfectly for the task. We've had no issues with instability. It's a solid open-source product.
View full review »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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reviewer1696335
Storage Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Oracle VM VirtualBox is stable.
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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.