--- title: Oracle VM Reviews meta_title: 'Oracle VM Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 73 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Oracle VM works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 73 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Oracle VM Reviews **Vendor:** Oracle **Category:** [Server Virtualization Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/server-virtualization) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 73 ## About Oracle VM Server Virtualization. ## Oracle VM Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users commend the **cost effectiveness** of Oracle VM, benefiting from its deep integration with the Oracle ecosystem. (1 reviews) - Users value the **deep integration** with the Oracle ecosystem, enhancing efficiency and reducing costs. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **limited features** of Oracle VM restrict its usability and adoption compared to competitors. (1 reviews) ## Oracle VM Reviews ### 1. Good, but can be better **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yanzhong X. | Oracle EBS Consultant (All Around), Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** easy install, powerful, scalable; PC or laptop, VM makes EBS installation in local PC possible **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** sometime unstable, taking too much memory; slowing host machine down drastically on and off **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** remote desktop, remote login, install EBS in laptop with VM ### 2. its functional and very visual based **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2018 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** I like how it's point and click and it works with other programs quite well **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** The length of time the system is down for updates **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** billing ### 3. Nice Open Source VM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sobhan M. | Sr. Oracle DBA, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** No need to worry about the licence. a Free product for the home user with the same feature of the commercial product. **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** None that I am aware but May need improvements on CLI. **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Virtualization ### 4. Use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sudhindra G. | Graduate Assistant, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** They best virtual environment. One package for whole lot of work **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** not found one. I am a new user and I have not found any disadvantage till now **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am new ### 5. SR VM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sowmya R. | Senior Business Analyst, Computer Networking, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** Customer Support and features, Product Quality. **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** SR creation takes long and takes lot of time. **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working in co-ordination and multiple location and security ### 6. Oracle Reliability, but cost **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** scalability of oracle provides for many use cases **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** cost of oracle would be the reason a switch away from oracle products would occur **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Account Information ### 7. OracleVM **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 04, 2017 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** user interface is interesting and easy to use **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** more Featuress need to be added to the application **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use it everyday for building environments ### 8. The best VM for easy and performed work **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ghada B. | R&D Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** Oracle Virtual machine presents a lot of interesting features that I found useful: - It is free to download - Run on different platforms in Windows, MacOS and Linux - Easy to setup - Easy to use - Performance is fast as compared to other solutions available **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** I can't really find anything that i dislike. Oracle VM is fulfilling all my needs as for now. Maybe, the only thing that bothered me was there is no drag and drop between host and guest machines, everything else was fine. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:** Oracle is known for their great software like oracle VM. So i highly recommend Oracle Virtual machine to work with, it's a freeware tool, easy to set up and to use and it's fast compared to other VM. **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am currently working on it, I can virtualize any Linux OS, I create a virtual machines Linux in Windows, it save me lot of time and resources. ### 9. Nothing else can be more cost effective than Oracle VM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Satish S. | Sr Middleware Expert, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** Oracle Virtual machine is cost effective solution for current generation integrated enterprise management. There are Oracle VM templates available for deployment. Hundreds of such pre-built deployment templates are available for different needs of applications. Performance is fast as compared to other solutions available. Since the Oracle is not charging for licensing at least for now, we have lots of savings when compared to the hardware approach. **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** For every freeware we see some negatives and same is the case with Oracle Virtual machine, but this is offset by the positives that are there. some of the drawbacks are lack of support. Complication in the setup of shared folders for guests is another hassle we are facing. Not all network cards are supported. If a host wants to automatically drag some folders into the guest desktop, its not easy. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:** Cost effective. That's enough for any enterprise to consider. **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Oracle Virtual Machine caters for rapid enterprise application deployment and simplify life cycle management. ### 10. I have had an okay experience with Oracle VM **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andi L. | Freelance Graphic Designer, Graphic Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** Oracle VM is a good program because it runs on various different platforms, so you can use it with Windows, OS X, and I believe Linux as well. It also didn't hurt that Oracle VM is free to download. **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** The program is difficult to use, and took a long time for us to set up and get the hang of, which was frustrating. There is not a lot of training offered for the program, which is very inconvenient, especially when multiple people need to be trained. The management side of things also needs a lot of work in my opinion. As far as I know, they haven't updated Oracle VM since 2014, so I'm not quite sure what the story is with that. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:** If you have the funds to purchase something other then Oracle VM, I would suggest you do that. Like I said previously, I don't think it's been updated since 2014, so I don't know if the company is even trying to expand upon or improve this program. I would think not. **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** There unfortunately aren't many benefits that I have found from using Oracle VM. The biggest benefits have been that it was free and that I can use it with both OS X and Windows. ### 11. Simple to boot and set up, and relatively responsive within the VM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tony W. | Founder, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** I like the easy setup process of Oracle VM, only took me 2 hours to set it up from scratch and once launched, the VM did not crash very often. **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** I did not like the fact that when I ran the VM on my gaming laptop, my laptop suddenly gave a BSOD which was odd for me since I had never seen a BSOD on my laptop before. However, it ran fine when I launched it on my desktop PC. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:** Use this product if you want a stable, easy to set up VM. Do not use this if you are unfamiliar with Oracle products in general. **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am building a photo sharing, critiquing, and competition website called PhotoShare. I've realized the benefits of using Oracle VM in that I can access my remote servers even from an external network such as when I am away traveling or on vacation. ### 12. Powerful but complicated **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander P. | CEO, co-founder, chief developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** Oracle VM Server is best used to virtualize other Oracle products. It is a pretty decent virtualization server based on Xen, and features fully tested and certified Oracle Applications stack for the enterprise environment. **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** Having used another Oracle's VM solution, VirtualBox (previously owned by Sun, though), I disliked the Oracle VM Manager user interface as it was too complicated. Maintenance is not as straightforward as with XenServer or even Microsoft Hyper-V. **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main benefit is reduced license costs. I didn't really look in it, but for Oracle ERP and/or DB it turns out to be cheaper than hosting them on other virtualization solutions. ### 13. Easy to Use, When It Works **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** We use Oracle VM to support our website. Previously we were using Wordpress and this is a huge step up. The program allows me to host the website in October where I can manually manipulate my code instead of having to fight through a hard to navigate webpage. Beyond the website, it's great because it connects my company for all our coding needs. Our team can work together on code from all over the world using this one program instead of resorting to multiple platforms. **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** As I don't have a background in engineering, the software can be hard for me to use. When it's working, it works great. When it crashes, I have to wait for our support team to fix it for me. I'm slowly learning how to fix common issues myself, but it takes time away from other work. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:** The Oracle VM works great for a team of software engineers but when setting up machines for non-engineering team members you will likely face problems and delays because of those problems. I would recommend do more work before implementation, creating help guides for all users. **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** The VM allows our team to collaborate across continents while using different computers (Macs & PCs) as well as different programs. It's saved us time and wasted energies in meetings. ### 14. Awesome Product - Speedy ! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** I personally like this VM as one can virtualized any linux OS. This VM doesn't lag or hang even if you virtualize 3-4 Linux machines. This is a freeware tool, that one can easily download and install on there personal machines **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** If you do like more than 4 Linux virtualization, this VM tend to lag. I assume that you have ample of RAM and space but still you will encounter a little delays, which can be overcome by loading lesser number of VMs at one moment **Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:** Yes I would highly recommend this software , as it is freeware there is no harm in trying, if you don't like you can anytime switch back to other paid VM. But, I would highly recommend to try it first **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have to run automation scripts on various Linux machines to verify the functionality of our business application ### 15. High performance and availability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** Before knowing Oracle VM, used other software market, but always we had difficulties of integration and performance. So I started to look for a solution of high perfomace and high scalability that was compatible with the internal policies of my company. Then I found the Oracle VM, so far the best choice I made in terms of virtualization. **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** not much dislike me in Oracle VM. Unfortunately what disturbs most is the documentation, my company is in Brazil and it is difficult to find qualified personnel in national territory. The documentation (fully in English) hinders the passage of knowledge, but nothing that would disrupt the use of the tool. **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Oracle VM deployment process of our application. During the launch of a new version always occurred incompatibility issues in the production environment now launched an entire production environment thanks to Oracle VM Manager Web Services API. After all meets well our goals ### 16. Dqta **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason T. | Manager Human Resources, Building Materials, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** Quick east, intuitive, with easy to understand interface. Well worth the time spent **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** Sometimes could be a challenge,with a small amount ofmtraimimg. i wa up and running in no tiwe **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Economic, pkanning, customer reach out. Steady and reliable process ### 17. Good usability. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ying Kit L. | Tutor - Digital Marketing & IT Systems, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** It is easy to use and straight forward. Pretty similar to the other Virtual Machines platform available. **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** You require to have a pre-requisite of VM knowledge and hands on experience in order to use Oracle VM. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:** Get some hands on experience and technical knowledge prior using VM. This will help you to enhance your development! **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Configuring and managing VM. The benefits I'd realised is to enhancing my skills and knowledge. ### 18. Day to day virtualization **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anibal S. | Senior Software Developer Team Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 01, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** A competetive virtualization product. Simple to use that does the job. It is designed to further abstract away the details of the platform. It doesn't need to provision storage or compute resources or anything like that. The resources are provisioned automatically, and scaling is handled by the system. **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** User interface is not very friendly or powerful. **Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:** Keep working in the same direction. Don't alianeate users (like VMWare has done) **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Software development. Local virtualization of target environments. ### 19. Great tool that supports rapid enterprise application development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** Comes equipped with over 100 prebuilt Oracle templates ready for deployment. The enterprise support is great and comes at a very affordable cost. **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** I really can't think of anything I dislike. Just an overall awesome tool! **Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:** Give it a try! It really is a great, easy to use, and intuitive tool. **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application development. ### 20. Oracle VM user **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maria R. | Software Consultant, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** I love how easy it is to create different virtual machines using this program **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** what I like least is that sometimes does not close properly, and the virtual machine must be turned on manually. **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me create a virtual machine Linux in a Windows environment ### 21. Oracle VM is a great addition to the product suite **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cliff R. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** Running the VM takes much less resources on the running processors than other VM tools on the market **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** The run time licensing costs can be prohibitive **Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:** Costs are a big factor - at the end of the day you have to compare production level licenses versus just prototyping **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running development environments using a VM rather than middle tier server deployments ### 22. Solves the purpose **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2015 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** I like that it is free, and can run on any platform without many issues. It is easy to use for the most part after you are set up ( setting it up is a big pain). **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** When I first started using it, it took me a while to set it up and get it up and running. Not the easiest to set up. Some of the features are not supported on certain platforms. **What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?** It lets me simulate certain workstations without me having to physically be at the machine, which is a huge advantage for my company since we have only a certain number of machines and 1000s of people are trying to use it at the same time. Saves us a lot of time, and resources. ### 23. Powerfull virtual machine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmed S. | Managing Director - Directors Board, Import and Export, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2013 **What do you like best about Oracle VM?** Oracle virtual machine is very easy to use and also it is not heavy in use comparing with other virtual machines in the market **What do you dislike about Oracle VM?** I don't have any comments about it for now because I didn't use it for a long time **Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:** Try it and you will be satisfied. :) ## Oracle VM Discussions - [Any advices with OVF/OVA images?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/12381-any-advices-with-ovf-ova-images) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Why in some computers you have to enable virtualization?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/12167-why-in-some-computers-you-have-to-enable-virtualization) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [View Oracle VM pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-vm/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-22+13%3A06%3A26+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=a48e5156-0e04-4b29-bb3a-05bfa9dec27a&secure%5Btoken%5D=ea1f15268fd48fcedbaf871c3146c0ae14a040cb0b66fbdbe9c6887343cc7716&format=llm_user) ## Oracle VM Features **Performance** - Scalability - Portability - Data Recovery **Functionality** - OS Integration - Resource Saving - Performance Management - Security **Agentic AI - Server Virtualization** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Oracle VM Alternatives - [VMware vSphere](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsphere/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (746 reviews) - [Azure Virtual Machines](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-virtual-machines/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (377 reviews) - [XenServer](https://www.g2.com/products/xenserver/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (48 reviews)