Overall Satisfaction with Oracle VM VirtualBox
We use VirtualBox primarily in our department. It allows us to quickly develop and test in various standardized environments on our own PCs. Testing is the primary use case - whether testing a back-end application before deploying to a live server or testing front-end applications with a variety of operating systems and browsers.
- Free
- Actively updated & quite stable
- Popular - Good community support
- Some interface elements could be more intuitive
- Documentation is good, but there's room for improvement
- Performance in some areas might have room for improvement
- Improved QA
- Improved Efficiency
I have used VMware ESXi for the purpose of running virtual productions servers. It's a different use case from VirtualBox, but they can be compared in some aspects:
- Both have room for improvement in UI - but VBox is somewhat more intuitive
- Both have decent performance in my experience
- Both can be challenging to configure if you do not have prior experience/training, but VBox is certainly the easier of the two to get up and running
- Both have room for improvement in UI - but VBox is somewhat more intuitive
- Both have decent performance in my experience
- Both can be challenging to configure if you do not have prior experience/training, but VBox is certainly the easier of the two to get up and running