Oracle VirtualBox vs. VMware Fusion

Oracle VirtualBox

154 Reviews and Ratings

VMware Fusion

74 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
VMware Fusion	Score7.8 out of 10	N/A	Vmware Fusion is a virtual user session software built to run Windows applications on Macintosh to run any Windows applications.	N/A

Pricing

Oracle VirtualBox

VMware Fusion

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

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Oracle VirtualBox	VMware Fusion
Considered Both Products	Oracle 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? 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? 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 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? Verified User Chose Oracle VirtualBox Considering it is free, the comparison seems slightly unfair, however my personal preference is still Virtual Box. The added features within Fusion are nowhere near important or useful enough to justify spending budget money on it. Therefore, despite VB being less aesthetically … Incentivized Helpful?	VMware by Broadcom Matteo Bisi DevSecOps Engineer in Information Technology at SIGHUP (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose VMware Fusion Oracle virtualbox has not reason to exist anymore, considering VMware Fusion pro is free for personal and not business use. I think VMware Fusion is better in every aspect. Parallels it's a great alternative, especially if you need only windows. If you need also linux Fusion is … Incentivized Helpful? Shion Song Art Director & Web Developer in Marketing at shion.ca (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose VMware Fusion As mentioned previously, perpetual licensing was the #1 reason. The interface is also cleaner, simpler, and less bloat. Parallels also seem to run a bit slower. Fusion was also more stable and significantly faster in both raw performance and graphics compared to Virtualbox. … Incentivized Helpful? Jonah Dempcy Web & Mobile Developer in Engineering at Bluefire Productions (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose VMware Fusion GitHub and Bitbucket are both used by our company for code sharing and are much easier to use for collaborative source code versioning. We internally use GitHub and have some clients who use Bitbucket. In some cases, we have software projects that are very hard to configure, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware Fusion To be fair, with other products, if pricing was a problem for the organization, I would choose VirtualBox, because it works very well on Mac environment and it has most of the features that VMware Fusion has. However, I personally like the way I can run my Microsoft Windows … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Waitkus, CISSP-ISSAP, OSCP Security Architect in Information Technology at Securicon, LLC (Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees) Chose VMware Fusion VM Fusion is a leader. It has more functionality and capability for workstation virtualization application. Its unity view and resource management of virtual guests is far superior to any other Mac workstation virtualization applications on the market. Incentivized Helpful? Kurt Pritchett Senior System Engineer in Information Technology at Clayton County Public Schools (Government Administration, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose VMware Fusion VMware Fusion works much better for us because of the migration capabilities. We use VMware vSphere and the migration/conversion is seamless. Some of the other virtualization application do not covert or migrate VMs onto other platforms as easily. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose VMware Fusion I actually think it's almost exactly the same as VirtualBox. VirtualBox I used for hosting a Linux distribution, and I think that there are inherently more problems to configuring a Linux distribution than there are to a Windows virtual machine, so mostly my issues were due to … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Oracle VirtualBox

VMware Fusion

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

User Ratings
	Oracle VirtualBox	VMware Fusion
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (53 ratings)	8.0 (20 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (4 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (7 ratings)	8.0 (4 ratings)
Availability	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (5 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)