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What is Oracle VM VirtualBox?
Open source, cross-platform, virtualization software that enables developers to deliver code faster by running multiple operating systems on a single device, used to deploy applications on-premises and to the cloud. Oracle VM VIrtualBox is Oracle's cross-platform virtualization offering, acquired with…
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What is Oracle VM VirtualBox?
Open source, cross-platform, virtualization software that enables developers to deliver code faster by running multiple operating systems on a single device, used to deploy applications on-premises and to the cloud. Oracle VM VIrtualBox is Oracle's cross-platform virtualization offering, acquired with Sun Microsystems in early 2010. The software was originally developed by Innotek GmbH.
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Open source, cross-platform, virtualization software that enables developers to deliver code faster by running multiple operating systems on a single device, used to deploy applications on-premises and to the cloud. Oracle VM VIrtualBox is Oracle's cross-platform virtualization offering, acquired with Sun Microsystems in early 2010. The software was originally developed by Innotek GmbH.
Hyper-V, Parallels Desktop, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are common alternatives for Oracle VM VirtualBox.
Reviewers rate Live virtual machine backup highest, with a score of 8.2.
The most common users of Oracle VM VirtualBox are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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May 10, 2023
Fantastic and Free
- Able to consolidate four low-risk servers onto a single host server, reduced our power footprint significantly, and set us on the path to virtualization.
- Quickly spin up multiple dev/test environment without looking for physical servers. This has saved us on many occasions.
- It is a free software, incredibly reliable, the ROI can only be positive.
February 17, 2022
Oracle VM VirtualBox Review
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
- The initial cost was 0.
- The time needed to start using is zero.
- The learning curve is very flat.
December 31, 2021
VirtualBox the best for virtualization!
- Work is now much faster since you do not need to be installing and uninstalling operating systems each time you need a different OS.
- It has reduced expenses for the business for example in the case where an application that is being tested damages the device and the device has to be replaced.
- Since you can install many VMs on VirtualBox, one device can do the workload of many devices which saves time.
August 10, 2021
Oracle at it again with good and powerful products
- Less hardware spent on testing and staging environments
- Keeping multiple OS snapshots was really helpful to compare before/after scenarios
- Utilize existing systems to power multiple copies of an Operating System
- More efficiently test applications or software without the wasted time to reinstall the OS
- Keeping multiple back ups of an OS if needed or wanted
April 29, 2021
Multiples Operating Systems
- Ability to use non-native programs for my computer's host OS.
- Saving time by changing the operating system (restarting the computer).
- Ease of exchanging files between operating systems
- Financial savings in acquiring new computers.
April 13, 2021
Flexibility and productivity made simple
- Mainly in avoiding costs of other solutions by providing virtualized options instead
- It makes it easier for our engineers to get the resources they need in a portable environment
- It is great to do research or test things out in an isolated virtualized environment without affecting the host system
April 09, 2021
Oracle VM VirtualBox Review
- Low investment cost
- Easy to use
- Allowed for better host OS options for developers.
- Allowed use of Microsoft products without having to work solely on Windows.
- Allows for more rapid cross-platform development.
March 17, 2021
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a great entry to virtualization
- Being free, it provides a very low bar of entry into virtualization. This has allowed for the purchase of single high-end machines that can support multiple virtual machines vs. purchasing multiple low-end machines for multiple single-use purposes.
- There is an active and helpful support community making it easier to solve some common issues.
- While free, it can be more difficult to use than competing alternatives, thus costing more man hours to get a VM up and running.
- While the support community can be helpful, finding solutions to more obscure issues can take a lot more time--and thus more man hours spent.
March 14, 2021
VirtualBox is great for testing
- We have been able to test software without having to change any of our actual machines. It has been better to crash virtual box instead of a regular machine
- It has saved money since it is free
January 02, 2021
Extends life of software requiring legacy operating systems
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
- Positive impact with my company as it has allowed us to run a vital legacy software program requiring Windows XP OS
July 23, 2020
Virtualization at its Best
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- Less maintenance charges.
- Reduced the overall cost of the test lab environment.
- Saved on unnecessary hardware.
March 06, 2020
VirtualBox Goes to School
- With VirtualBox, we can run courses that otherwise would be impractical to run.
- VirtualBox permits faculty members to test environments that aren't native to our own systems.
- VirtualBox allows faculty members to experiment with virtualization technologies.
February 26, 2020
A no-cost and really good virtualization software platform.
- One positive impact it has had is cost savings, as there is no cost for running the software. There are many other commercial offerings that can get costly, and even some that the licensing has to renew every year/couple of years, but not so with VirtualBox. This can be run without any of those restrictions.
- Another positive impact it has had is with regards to working well in a production environment, where there are a number of different OS platforms. It has managed these quite well.
January 20, 2020
VirtualBox is a great VM option for use with Vagrant
- It's a free way for us to use VMs with Vagrant for our development.
- Running VMs allows us to closely match our production environment for local development.
December 09, 2019
The best friend of any cybersecurity professional!
- Improved the flexibility on deployments
- Ability of parallel testing
- Ability of system isolation
November 22, 2019
Love at first install
- We did not have to buy very expensive equipment to set up a separate penetration testing area for our mobile applications.
October 22, 2019
Oracle VM VirtualBox: Great product!
- Popular - Good community support
- Documentation is good, but there's room for improvement
- Allows a bridged network to be built with no problems at all.
October 11, 2019
Open-Source, but Enterprise-Level Performance.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- Oracle VM VirtualBox is free, so it had no impact on our company's budget.
- As we are now able to patch platform-specific bugs in our software, we have increased customer satisfaction as well as reduced the number of bug tickets.
- We have saved expenses on buying additional hardware to test our applications on different OS's.
October 09, 2019
Simplified Virtualization
- So far, I see only positive impact, where the solution has helped us to simulate situations in the testing environment, without being in production, preventing incidents, reducing costs and time.
October 04, 2019
Oracle VM VirtualBox gives you the best of all virtual worlds
- It saves money because it's free, available, and easy to use for a type 2 hypervisor.
- It saves money because you don't have to buy a commercial solution to do the same thing.
- It's handy because VMs can be dragged and dropped from one system to another with minimal effort.
October 04, 2019
Best Option for the Cost
- Saves money
- Significant timesaver
- Minimal training required compared to its competition
October 03, 2019
VirtualBox is a gift!
- It reduced costs in training myself and other new IT staff when I first started using it by creating a low-risk environment for us to learn about building VMs and Linux in general.
- It has saved costs on having to expand my hard drive or have multiple web servers running, by allowing me to just spin up and close local servers when I need them.
October 03, 2019
A very good choice for virtualization
- Having to setup and maintain certain dev and test topologies may be a painstaking process when bare-metal is the only choice. VM Technologies, such as Oracle VM VirtualBox come to our aid, in that case, greatly saving time and resources for the company.
- Its learning curve is almost close to nothing, every new employee that comes to work, even when having zero experience in this technology is able to process its paradigm in almost zero time and start using it right away.
- Backups have become a more stable and seamlessly process with Oracle VM VirtualBox, with the snapshot functionality that gives us a better rotating policy means.