Great for free, but if you need anything enterprise, use vmWare
October 03, 2019
Great for free, but if you need anything enterprise, use vmWare
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Oracle VM VirtualBox
If we need a Linux environment, we create it in VirtualBox. We'll use the environment for running tools like penetration testing or checking items for malicious code.
- VM used by one person at a time on that user's PC
- running a VM server on a server
- Running Windows or Linux
- Using with BOINC so they can run virtual environments on your PC
- Last I used it, there wasn't a great wizard to convert a machine like VMware's Conversion wizard
- No way to move a running VM to another drive
- Not a great snapshot management system.
- It's been great to have when we just need to do something simple
- It doesn't have the futures we need for our production systems so we have to buy vmWare for a lot of money instead
- At least this option is free but you certainly get what you pay for, basic needs.
It's much more useful than VMware Workstation Player because you can't edit anything at all with that free version of vmWare. This is just about as capable as VMware Fusion and Workstation until you pay even more to use vSphere, and then you start having enterprise features.