Our VM Box Usage Review
March 12, 2018
Our VM Box Usage Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle VM VirtualBox
It is being used to build virtual Linux instances on Windows X86 boxes to help facilitate our DevOps processes and development processes, including our move to containers. It allows the ability to do this without the developers having to have full admin rights on their machines.
- Creating of VMs for Linux with very little work
- Facilitating the use of docker and containerizing workloads via development desktops
- Provides standard ways to share environments between developers
- It takes a while to start up
- Slows down machines a bit
- For my organization, it was a springboard to enhanced development and faster development while keeping security in mind
- Docker
Facilitates a more standard practice on x86 machines without needing full admin