Oracle VirtualBox

Oracle VirtualBox

154 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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

Oracle VirtualBox

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

No setup fee

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	Oracle VirtualBox
Considered Both Products	Oracle Verified User Chose Oracle VirtualBox Oracle VirtualBox is the better choice due to its cost-effectiveness, ease of use and feature set. However VMware Workstation is more suitable due to its superior performance, better features and better integration with enterprise tools. VMware Workstation also provides a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle VirtualBox It always depends on the usecase which product is better suited. But generally, Oracle VM VirtualBox is very easy to set up on every operating system and is intuitive in the usage. Compared to VMware Workstation it offers less features but for a basic setup, I prefer Oracle VM … Incentivized Helpful? Dave King Director of IT in Information Technology at Preis PLC (Law Practice, 51-200 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox stacks up perfectly and it is Free Incentivized Helpful? Gabriel Krahn Analista de Suporte de Sistemas in Information Technology at T-Systems do Brasil (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox Oracle's solution is entirely free, although a bit clumsy and visually outdated. Hyper-V can and will be a better match due to having more resources, offering full Microsoft Support, and being focused mainly on corporative uses, but for a small environment, it can be like … Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Twitchell Senior System Engineer in Information Technology at NetDocuments (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox VirutalBox is very similar to using Vmware with the slight difference in appearance and what might be considered a less polished look. However, what it lacks in polish and looks it makes up for in functionality, easy of use and the wide range of operating systems and features … Incentivized Helpful? Alejandro Daniel Copati CoFunder & Hardware Head in Engineering at Xavia IOT (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox While Parallels Desktop has always positioned itself better than VirtualBox, it will never be able to compete against free and open-source software. Yes, it is true that it has some extra seasonings that can make the scale move towards Parallels at the time of the election, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle VirtualBox VMWare Workstation required VMware Workstation Pro to create the system before we could use it. The license requirements for the latter was the issue as we needed this for dev/test environments as well as to show POC on virtualization without necessarily incurring a cost at the … Incentivized Helpful? Satishbabu Gunukula, Oracle ACE Sr. Database Architect in Information Technology at Intuitive Surgical (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox NA Incentivized Helpful? 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? Aaron Pinsker Owner in Information Technology at Colorado Computer Care (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox The main benefits of Oracle VM VirtualBox are its licensing terms (it is free), its open-source nature, and its active community. However, its various competitors do a much better job when it comes to both ease of use and, most importantly, speed. For example, Parallels Desktop … Incentivized Helpful? Barry Burd Professor at Drew University (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox We've used VMware, and continue to use it for some projects. But, in my experience, the latest updates to VMware run very slowly, particularly on macOS. Many blog posts offer tweaks to help speed up VMware, but none of these tweaks make a significant difference. Incentivized Helpful? Nate Dillon Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education in Information Technology at Kansas State University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox We primarily use Oracle VM VirtualBox because it's free, and it is the default provider for Vagrant, which we use for our development VMs. The user interface of VirtualBox looks a little clunky in macOS, but I actually almost never see the main VirtualBox interface because I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle VirtualBox With regards to how some of the other virtualization software packages stack up again VirtualBox, I would say VirtualBox is ahead of the game especially when it comes to cost savings, as there is no ongoing cost for running the software. A big disadvantage to one of the other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle VirtualBox As I mentioned earlier, Oracle VM VirtualBox and VMware Workstation offer roughly the same type of features. One of the main differences is that VMware Workstation is a commercial product while Oracle VM VirtualBox is open-source. Resource utilization and graphics support is … Incentivized Helpful? Kenneth Hess Community Manager Enable SysAdmin in Marketing at Red Hat (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox VirtualBox is just as robust and as functional as the VMware desktop product. It actually has more features and in some ways is easier to work with. I've also found that VirtualBox supports newer operating systems better than VMware Workstation. There's also the cost advantage … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Oracle VirtualBox I have used Parallels as well as VMware Workstation and have always returned to VirtualBox. VirtualBox is free which makes it easy to try. Compared to the others, it does everything I need. In +7 years I have not been able to justify the cost of a Parallels Desktop or VMware … 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? Christopher Boyd Owner, Developer in Information Technology at Cre8tiveCoder (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox It's free, fast, and really well built. Obviously, VMware is the key competitor, but I consider that more of an enterprise app for building and managing entire networks of virtual systems, whereas VirtualBox is fantastic as a personal VM tool. What it lacks in enterprise-grade … Incentivized Helpful? Justin Bongard Senior IT Support Technician in Information Technology at Global Financial Credit, LLC (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox It's much more useful than VMware Workstation Player because you can't edit anything at all with that free version of vmWare. This is just about as capable as VMware Fusion and Workstation until you pay even more to use vSphere, and then you start having enterprise features. 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? Verified User Chose Oracle VirtualBox I have used a couple of other hypervisors but those softwares are no longer operational and have became obsolete. Incentivized Helpful? ram nair Database Administrator in Quality Assurance at rhombium (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Oracle VirtualBox We chose Oracle because they have various amounts of products to integrate with. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Oracle VirtualBox

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

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