HashiCorp Vagrant vs. Oracle VirtualBox

HashiCorp Vagrant

40 Reviews and Ratings

Oracle VirtualBox

154 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
HashiCorp Vagrant	Score10 out of 10	N/A	Vagrant is a tool designed to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. It leverages a declarative configuration file which describes all software requirements, packages, operating system configuration, and users.	N/A
Oracle VirtualBox	Score9.3 out of 10	N/A	Oracle VirtualBox is an open source, cross-platform, virtualization software, enables developers to deliver code faster by running multiple operating systems on a single device.	$0 per month

Pricing

HashiCorp Vagrant

Oracle VirtualBox

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Pricing Offerings
HashiCorp Vagrant	Oracle VirtualBox
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	HashiCorp Vagrant	Oracle VirtualBox
Considered Both Products	HashiCorp Verified User Chose HashiCorp Vagrant Virtualbox and VMware were easier products to set up but did not stack up against Vagrant with the customization and the ability to specifically test and work with our code base. Virtualbox and VMware were more generic solutions that may be easier but they did not fulfill the … Incentivized Helpful? Joey Yax Web Developer in Engineering at Grady Britton (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose HashiCorp Vagrant Vagrant is a little different than other options out there. It blurs the lines between the server environment and the local environment. Options like MAMP and XAMPP allow a developer to run a local version of Apache, MySQL and PHP locally, but it's all based on the local … Incentivized Helpful? Charles Anderson VP Engineering in Engineering at EveryoneSocial (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose HashiCorp Vagrant Vagrant is more of a meta-tool compared to traditional VM software. It provides a layer on top of VMware or VirtualBox. Configurations in a Vagrantfile are so much easier to manage than complete VMs. Incentivized Helpful? Claudio Fernando Maciel Sr. Software Developer in Research & Development at CONSLOG - Construction Software (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose HashiCorp Vagrant In comparison to Docker, Vagrant is a lot easier to create its [containers] boxes, than it is with Docker. Our company already dealt with and its devops team knew somewhat well the way of Vagrant, so it was quite natural to go Vagrant when trying to choose which would be our … Incentivized Helpful?	Oracle David McCann Software Engineer in Engineering at TMA - Technology Management Associates (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox Docker, and automated machine provisioning in DevOps often uses the metaphor "treat your machines like cattle, not pets." VirtualBox's intended use is definitely in the creation, management and use of "pet" machines, whereas many similar products are more in the "cattle" … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle VirtualBox We feel like we made a good decision going with Oracle VM VirtualBox because it was more enterprise ready. They had great customer success team and proper API compatibility which allowed for great integration into our legacy tools. The support we got from the development … Incentivized Helpful? Claudio Fernando Maciel Software Engineer in Research & Development at PIPELEAP (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox In a Windows environment, Docker would not even be possible, to begin with. Also, on the way around, having a Linux based Machine, without Oracle VM VirtualBox, one would have to create a partitioned disk and enable it at boot time in order to be able to run Windows in such a … Incentivized Helpful? Derek Ardolf Freelance Consultant and Educator in Information Technology at Halfway To Infinite (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox Reasons why I prefer to use Oracle VM VirtualBox: I've worked and taught in many environments where the OS used by others (or by me for employment reasons) is a mix of Windows and Mac OSX. Sometimes Linux is around if I can help it. Being familiar with VirtualBox means I won't … Incentivized Helpful? Chris Putnam Senior Web Developer in Engineering at WebpageFX (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox I have used VMware ESXi for the purpose of running virtual productions servers. It's a different use case from VirtualBox, but they can be compared in some aspects: - Both have room for improvement in UI - but VBox is somewhat more intuitive - Both have decent performance in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle VirtualBox VirtualBox is free and works well for running machines in the background so if this is what you mainly need to do there's no reason to pay for VMware. However VMware has some more advanced functionalities and better 3D hardware support so it depends on your needs whether … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle VirtualBox I'm not aware of any products that truly rival VirtualBox for producing desktop environments, but for producing a headless testing environment, such as a Linux server, products like Docker and Vagrant seem to be more applicable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox is a good hypervisor, for the reasons mentioned above. However, working also with VMWare, I noticed that Oracle VM VirtualBox's memory consumption is always higher than VMWare, and that Oracle VM VirtualBox doesn't allow for running multiple VMs … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

HashiCorp Vagrant

Oracle VirtualBox

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of HashiCorp Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox
Feature	HashiCorp Vagrant - Ratings	Oracle VirtualBox 8.2 50 Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning	00 Ratings	8.036 Ratings
Management console	00 Ratings	8.846 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	00 Ratings	8.236 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	00 Ratings	7.033 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	00 Ratings	9.029 Ratings

User Ratings
	HashiCorp Vagrant	Oracle VirtualBox
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (14 ratings)	9.7 (53 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (4 ratings)
Usability	5.5 (1 ratings)	10.0 (7 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)