Quick and Easy
May 31, 2019

Quick and Easy

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle VM VirtualBox

VirtualBox is used in multiple different ways including test virtual machines, jumpboxes, and production machines.
  • Simple and easy to use, setup took only a few minutes and was not too complicated.
  • Free! I had tried other products that were not free, and they were not as good as this one.
  • The ability to quickly spin up, or down, a dev and test environment, quickly and easily is very nice.
  • Support. I've had a few issues, and would love a response from support or help with it, but none found.
  • Stability. Sometimes restoring VMs fails.
  • Test environment, I've been able to test multiple different applications within a quickly stood up VirtualBox environment.
  • Countless man hours saved by ability to quickly export VMs from test environment.
Since OracleBox can do most of what VMware can, but free, the benefit is obvious. The quick set up and tear down are also a huge benefit. I chose Oracle VM VirtualBox for these reasons primarily, but there are countless others too. I would definitely say that this is the way to go.
VMware ESXi, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer)
If you are looking to quickly spin up VMs without having to pay for a product and know that they will most likely not be in a production environment, VirtualBox is the way to go. Set up is quick and simple and your dev environment will be up and running in minutes.

Oracle VM VirtualBox Feature Ratings

Virtual machine automated provisioning
8
Management console
8
Live virtual machine backup
9
Live virtual machine migration
9
Hypervisor-level security
8