Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) vs. Oracle VM

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

17 Reviews and Ratings

Oracle VM

23 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
KVM	Score 7.5 out of 10	N/A	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization solution developed by small Israeli software company Qumranet and supported by Red Hat since that company's acquisition in 2008.	N/A
Oracle VM	Score 7.9 out of 10	N/A	Oracle's server virtualization products support x86 and SPARC architectures and a variety of workloads such as Linux, Windows and Oracle Solaris. In addition to solutions that are hypervisor-based, Oracle also offers virtualization built in to hardware and Oracle operating systems to deliver the most complete and optimized solution for the entire computing environment.	N/A

Pricing

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Oracle VM

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
KVM	Oracle VM
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	Oracle VM
Top Pros	Pro Automation tools Pro Licensing cost Pro Multiple versions	Pro Operating systems Pro Virtual machines Pro Easy use
Top Cons	Minus Limited support Minus Setting it up Minus Hard to set	Minus Tagging feature Minus Free tier Minus Not intuitive

Features

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)

Oracle VM

Server Virtualization

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Product A and Product B
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) 9.2 5 Ratings 10% above category average	Oracle VM 7.2 6 Ratings 15% below category average
Virtual machine automated provisioning	9.04 Ratings	5.76 Ratings
Management console	9.03 Ratings	7.56 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	9.73 Ratings	5.65 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	9.04 Ratings	8.84 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	9.53 Ratings	8.44 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	Oracle VM
Small Businesses	Proxmox VE Score 9.3 out of 10	Proxmox VE Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	VMware vSOM (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	Oracle VM
Likelihood to Recommend	9.3 (5 ratings)	7.8 (6 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)	Oracle VM
Likelihood to Recommend	Red Hat KVM is the best solution in the case you need to test and turn up any virtual environment with limited vCPU/RAM resources. The obvious area of its use is a network environment when we want to avoid being tied to one type of hardware/vendor and being able to swap from one instance to another with no downtimes. The use of a vSwitch (that supports VLAN tagging) is a significant bonus for network engineers that some other hypervisors do not provide. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Oracle Well suited: development work as they provide a very nice free tier, datacenters in Latin America with very low ping, heavy loads for DB if you use Oracle DB Less appropriate: fast webservers as they use hard disks for several tiers, fast MySQL databases as the server is shared, auto-scaling functionality is not present. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Red Hat KVM is really good at providing fast and reliable virtualization for Linux guests Since KVM is a kernel module, every VM is a Linux process which can be managed by Linux system tools KVM integrates very well with the management framework libvirt, which is why KVM can be integrated in automation tools as well Incentivized Valentin Höbel Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure Read full review	Oracle Installation and setup of VM Server are pretty straight forward. Many different guest operating systems are supported. There can be up to 128 virtual machines per physical server. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Red Hat Complex networking GPU processing is not fully supported It's hard to set up without support tools Incentivized Stenio Pereira Filho IT Group manager Read full review	Oracle Not as flexible as VMware. Could have slightly better templates for provisioning database nodes. In terms of performance it lags a bit behind Red Hat's KVM solution. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Red Hat Kernel-based Virtual Machine is an open-source and free solution, compared to Virtualbox which is a product from Oracle. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Oracle The ease of use on the Oracle platform is greater, flexibility and compatibility also helped in the choice, in addition to the cost-benefit. Incentivized Gledson Rodrigues Analista de Rede 2 Read full review
Return on Investment	Red Hat KVM just works and gets out of the way KVM is working great with other open-source technologies like QEMU and libvirt Incentivized RM Robert Munteanu Software Engineer Read full review	Oracle Migrating our workload from AWS to Oracle gave us a huge benefit in cost reduction. We've experienced a lot of outages. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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