We performed a comparison between Oracle VM and Oracle VM VirtualBox based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

Ease of Deployment: The majority of Oracle VM reviewers say the initial setup is straightforward, but a handful of users say the setup is complex. Oracle VM VirtualBox users all agree that the initial setup is straightforward.

Features: Users of both products are happy with their stability, scalability, and ease of use. Oracle VM users like its flexibility and say that it is a mature product but that it has a bit of a learning curve. Oracle VM VirtualBox users praise its snapshot and reporting features and say it performs well. Some Oracle VM VirtualBox mention that its UI needs enhancements and that it consumes a high amount of resources.

Pricing: Both Oracle VM and Oracle VM VirtualBox are open-source and free of charge.
ROI: Reviewers of both products report seeing an ROI.

Service and Support: Users of both solutions report being satisfied with the level of support they receive.

Comparison Results: Oracle VM has a slight edge in the comparison. It is a mature, stable, and flexible solution. One area where Oracle VM VirtualBox did come out on top, however, was in the ease of deployment category.

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Categories and Ranking

Oracle VM

Ranking in Server Virtualization Software

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Oracle VM VirtualBox

Ranking in Server Virtualization Software

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Server Virtualization Software category, the market share of Oracle VM is 7.6% and it increased by 24.8% compared to the previous year. The market share of Oracle VM VirtualBox is 8.8% and it decreased by 11.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Rasika Sudasinghe

Senior Director - Systems Architecture at MIT ESP

Aug 15, 2023

A cheap option available for Linux environments which is useful for many workloads

Oracle VM is an obsolete product in that no new features are coming for it. The new version is called Oracle KVM. The only improvement needed for Oracle VM is the look and feel of the interface. When comparing the user console with vCenter, the interface used to control VMware environments, Oracle VM's user interface is not that rich in terms of user experience. If Oracle could improve that, it would be good. Besides that, we don't know if the solution comes with a roadmap because it comes free of charge with Oracle x86. We can't expect something similar to vCenter in KVM, but at least if you can improve what users can experience, then it would be good.

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Tomasz Pietas

ICT Manager at LPEC

Mar 9, 2023

Good functionality and free to use with a useful snapshot feature

I'm a teacher and I use the solution for teaching and testing. I have been able to test and roll back features if I need to. I have snapshots and a virtual network if I need to. The functionality and productivity are very good. I can test and roll back features in my work. It's a big platform.…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The biggest advantage of Oracle VM is that you can separate your clusters to get your licenses agreement in scope."

"Its ease of management and simplicity are most valuable. It is free, and you can provision an unlimited number of VMs at no cost for clients. They also provide perfect support."

"It provides enhancements for network and storage configuration, policy-based management for delivering application resource flexibility, and a GUI."

"The support staff in the tech support team at Oracle has improved. I find them extremely helpful and they give very solid support."

"The ability to live migrate VMs on the fly from one hypervisor to another has been very useful."

"I rate Oracle VM's scalability a ten out of ten."

"It is simple and straightforward, and it will only require you one system integrator to do the job."

"It's a very mature product."

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"This is a good and easy solution for running virtual environments."

"This solution can be used on many different platforms including Windows and Linux."

"Compatible with almost any operating system"

"The product gives us the flexibility to try different machines."

"Technical support is good."

"The snapshot feature is very powerful; it protects us from disaster."

"The most valuable aspects of the solution were the support and performance of the product and the flexibility it gives you to work."

"Oracle VM VirtualBox has a platform where the support team responds to frequently asked questions by its users. Every time I have had issues with Oracle VM VirtualBox, I always get a solution from Oracle's online platform or GitHub."

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Cons

"The performance could be better because I need to purchase a lot of CPUs to perform in the workbench."

"With our current OVM Manager version, migrating a VM from one repository to another repository was really complicated, especially editing and manually matching the configuration."

"One is the hypervisor. Right now, it’s all using Xen. What would be really helpful is to have some choice, and the underlying hypervisor technology use KVM which is very popular with certain workloads."

"It doesn't monitor everything, which is a little bit more difficult. It doesn't seem to have as many features or metrics to monitor as some others do, so you have to make some homemade scripts to do it."

"Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool. However, you'll have to read a lot of documents and perform experiments in test environments to make it work for you."

"The solution needs more features and flexibility in terms of communicating with other platforms. If it had that, it would be the perfect product."

"Integration with cloud products would be beneficial."

"Integration capabilities are a little complicated. It could be made easier. Whether integrating with Azure or other platforms or integration with OIC itself, the integration part is a little complicated."

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"The user interface needs to be improved."

"The installation is difficult and could be improved."

"The solution should have more enterprise features, like migration, high availability storage, disaster recovery, and the ability to deploy to enterprise-scale usage. They should not just offer desktop usage."

"Oracle needs to improve its hot virtual machine migration. It didn't work as intended. It should allow us to migrate between virtual machines, without stopping the database."

"I think that this solution should be more user-friendly."

"Basically, the GUI and command-line interface need improvement."

"The technical support needs to improve."

"Having live migrations to move a running server to other hardware would be great."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Oracle's VM VirtualBox is a powerful, free, and open-source virtualization tool."

"All other vendors are selling their licenses to use the VM, but Oracle isn't doing that, which is its biggest advantage. It is free. All you have to do is get the hardware. You can create an unlimited number of VMs for free. With VMware, you have to purchase licenses for the number of VMs that you want to create. You only pay for their premium support, and even that is optional. I am now learning this product, and we can even do without the support."

"The price compares well with other solutions."

"There is no need to make any payments to use the solution. You can just download the product and use it for free."

"The cost of this solution is cheap. It is one of the reasons we chose Oracle VM. It is truly "pocket- friendly.""

"The solution comes for free with Oracle's x86 servers, called X9."

"The solution is free but we have to pay for technical support."

"The licensing for Oracle VM solution is very nice because you license the box."

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"It is a very cost-effective solution."

"There are no licensing fees."

"The product is free to use."

"It is an open-source solution."

"Price wise, Oracle VM VirtualBox is a six on a scale from one to ten."

"This is an open-source product and it can be used free of charge."

"Pricing does not apply for us, we do not have to pay for the service."

"It is pretty good for the price, which is free."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

45%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

15%

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

Manufacturing Company

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - Oracle VM or KVM?

I would prefer if KVM was easier to scale and not so limited. Overall the product has been helpful. It is easy to use, and was quite straight-forward to set up. Since I have been using KVM, I have ...

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Which is better - Oracle VM or VMware VSphere?

Oracle VM seems to me to be kind of outdated. Nevertheless, it is fairly straightforward to use and maintain. The solution can just be set and you can forget about it, and the scalability is consid...

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What do you like most about Oracle VM?

If you want to access the VM from anywhere over the Internet, you put it in a public subnet. So, VMs are linked to that. The subnets are linked to it. So, it's perfectly secured if it's a private n...

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How does KVM compare to Oracle VM VirtualBox?

KVM is easy to use, stable and flexible. It is mature and very fast. It is an affordable open-source solution that is easy to set up and manage. It offers very good security. It has a virtual manag...

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What do you like most about Oracle VM VirtualBox?

The product’s most valuable feature is the ability to manage multiple operating systems through one application.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Oracle VM VirtualBox?

The solution is available for free use.

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Comparisons

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Compared 35% of the time

KVM vs Oracle VM

Compared 19% of the time

Proxmox VE vs Oracle VM

Compared 15% of the time

Hyper-V vs Oracle VM

Compared 4% of the time

RHEV vs Oracle VM

Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 38% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

VMware Workstation vs Oracle VM VirtualBox

Compared 9% of the time

VMware vSphere vs Oracle VM VirtualBox

Compared 7% of the time

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Overview

Oracle VM for x86

Oracle VM for x86 is a Xen based server virtualization platform for public and private cloud and traditional on premise deployment. Oracle VM offers full lifecycle and application deployment from disk to cloud.

Designed and optimized for security, efficiency and performance Oracle VM supports major hardware vendors x86 and storage platforms and can run workloads on Linux, Windows and Oracle Solaris. Uniquely for our virtualization platform it offers live patching via Ksplice enhancing security and minimizing service disruption. Oracle VM supports hard partitioning which can significantly reduce software applications licensing costs.

Oracle VM for SPARC

Oracle VM for SPARC is a firmware based virtualization platform for Oracle and Fujitsu SPARC based servers running Solaris. Oracle VM supports hard partitioning which can significantly reduce software applications licensing costs.

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a robust AMD64/Intel64 and x86 next-generation virtualization solution that functions well for home use and is also powerful enough to handle the needs of a busy enterprise organization. This professional solution is open source and provides super-fast high performance in addition to many outstanding value-added features. VirtualBox functions effectively on Windows, macOS, Solaris, Linux, and more. Users can benefit from VirtualBox's dedication to continually developing the product and providing continual progressive updates and releases. The solution is supported by a trusted dedicated professional community and is backed by Oracle, which guarantees that the product is able to consistently meet and exceed quality controls and protocols at all times.

Oracle VM VirtualBox Features

Oracle VM Virtual Box provides many value-added features. Some of these features include:

Consolidation: Oracle VM VirtualBox makes it easy for users to seamlessly run numerous virtual machines on a small number of hosts and will also facilitate comprehensive balancing of the loads between VMs. This helps to minimize and consolidate the hardware needed throughout the organization.
Diagnostics: VirtualBox provides excellent testing and disaster recovery. Users can use the virtual hard disk like a container. This container can be copied, frozen, backed up, or transported between hosts. Using the virtual machines (VMs), users can easily test multi-node network services for any networking, software configuration, or operating system issues.
Snapshots: Using snapshots, users are able to save or freeze a specific state of a VM and choose to revert back to the protected state if/when they desire. Users are able to make changes or experiment within the computing space. Should a problem arise, users can revert back to the selected snapshot; this makes the need for frequent backups and restores unnecessary.
Flexibility: The solution makes it easy to run different operating systems (OSes) at the same time. Users can run software designed for one OS on another OS. For example, users can easily run Windows on a MAC and not have to perform a reboot. As users can configure the kinds of virtual hardware to be presented with each OS, there is greater flexibility on which OS can be selected, and users can even choose older OSes or ones that are not currently supported by the original OS.
Cost-effective: Virtualization with Oracle VM VirtualBox enables users to considerably minimize overall costs by reducing the amount of hardware needed and the associated expenses of running the physical machines throughout an organization. This tremendous cost savings results in ROI being achieved in a very short period of time.

Reviews from Real Users

“Oracle VM VirtualBox is easy to use and does not require much training. It uses fewer resources. Teams using new operating system releases can quickly test and implement. This would make the development of new software releases faster and easier. It also helps users to write the program, test, and support it on multiple platforms. It has a good community as it is open-source.” - Satishbabu G., Oracle ACE

“It is easy to use and does not require complex knowledge. It uses less resources, which is a requirement as it is used to onboard hardware with very little resources available.” - A PeerSpot user who is an IT Architect - AI at CGI

Sample Customers

Ambulance Victoria, Australian Finance Group (AFG), Avnet Technology Solutions, CERN, cloudKleyer, Danish Tax Authority (SKAT), Data Intensity, Dubai World, Engineers Australia, Enkitec, Groupe FLO, Guerra S.A. Implemento, s Rodovišrios, Interactive One, IT Convergence, Jesta Digital, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, KT, Kyoto Prefecture, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / National Ignition Facility, Multinet Pakistan, National Australia Bank (NAB), Navis LLC, Overhead Door, Overstock.com, Paragon Data, Parks Victoria, Pella, Sunway Shared Services, St. Louis Metro, Terminales Ro de la Plata S.A., University of Massachusetts, Versace,

Airbus, Colorado State University, SCS Africa, Wolf Medical Systems.

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