Oracle VM is used to create and run virtual machines, allowing teams to run separate operating systems and work environments on shared hardware. Users describe using it for software testing, development environments, and hosting virtualized workloads.

What company sizes and industries is Oracle VM the best fit for?

Oracle VM’s strongest positive-user fit spans small, mid-market, and enterprise organizations, with the clearest industry presence in IT and software-related fields. The segments that stand out are:

Company size — Mid-market: Organizations with 51–1,000 employees.
Company size — Enterprise: Organizations with more than 1,000 employees.
Company size — Small business: Organizations with 50 or fewer employees.
Industry — IT and services: A prominent area of use, including information technology and services.
Industry — Software: Computer software organizations are also well represented.
Industry — Telecommunications: Telecommunications is another visible use context.

What customer support options does Oracle VM provide, and how do users find the overall support experience?

The support experience is mixed: users describe getting help quickly and reliably, while others find support limited or documentation difficult to navigate. That contrast makes the support experience an important point to assess for teams that will need frequent hands-on assistance.

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Aditya S.

Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/14/2022

"Oracle VM Review"

4/5

What do you like best about Oracle VM?

What I like the best about Oracle VMs is their Reliability, Availability and Scalability, performance, and Fault tolerance. It is better compared to its competitors in the above parameter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle VM?

Maintenance is cumbersome and sometimes it become very difficult to spin off Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robert H.

Executive Director

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/19/2022

"OCI Fits a purpose and can be competitive."

3.5/5

What do you like best about Oracle VM?

Easy of implementation didn't take that long. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle VM?

Oracle's reputation of being expensive. All the young kids are AWS or Google Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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☁ Kevin P.

Manager Advisory Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/18/2022

"Difficult Migration to Cloud"

4/5

What do you like best about Oracle VM?

I like the integration of Oracle's database and EBS solutions in OCI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle VM?

Lack of adoption for Oracle solutions by other public clouds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/14/2022

"Best Virtual Machine"

5/5

What do you like best about Oracle VM?

Oracle VM is the best virtual machine that supports environments of various OS such as Windows, Linux, macOS. The feature to create a virtual machine of any OS is the best. We can make any VM and use that VM to perform desired operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle VM?

The feature of creating a VM is itself the best thing ever. We can make it and use that VM for tasks. Oracle VM should improve the frontend of its application so that when users create any VM, it is easy for them to interact. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:

Use Oracle VM for creating any OS VM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using Oracle VM to create a virtual machine for my ease. I am a Windows user, and I use Linux OS for command purposes, so I make a VM of Linux and use that for Linux command. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naresh R.

RTL design engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 8/5/2021

"Best software to use multiple operating systems"

5/5

What do you like best about Oracle VM?

What I like best is Oracle VM is it provides a simple and user-friendly environment while we want to use multiple operating systems on a single PC. It provides the best security for the user data. It prevents data loss and data correction while we are using two different operating systems. It helps so many people who are willing to work with different platforms at a time. Mainly it is very useful for the Windows operating system user because they can switch between Ubuntu and Windows simultaneously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle VM?

What I dislike about the Oracle VM it doesn't have a good graphical user interface so users may feel difficulty while using the Oracle VM. Sometimes it takes too much time to open the other operating system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/2/2022

"Describing my experience of using oracle VM at workplace."

5/5

What do you like best about Oracle VM?

It is really easy to operate and we can use various categories of OS like windows, linux etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle VM?

Sometimes network settings can be tricky to make. Apart from that no limitation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Roberto F.

Gerente Infraestructura TI

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/12/2020

"Stable Virtualization Platforms, License Compliance, Poor functionalities and Management"

4/5

What do you like best about Oracle VM?

We used Oracle VM for SPARC PROCESSORS for virtualized our databases running on Solaris OS, for our X86 Processors we found that Oracle VM Server does the job, it let us create a virtual machine in a stable platform that it is compliance with the Oracle License agreement (Oracle Soft Partitioning for virtualization). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle VM?

Management is not intuitive Backups Operation, you must design your own plan Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:

For virtualization platform its lacks of a lot of functionalities when you compare it with VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. Oracle VM Server does the job that it was design for, it lets you virtualize virtual machines running with Oracle Red Hat Enterprise Server as Hypervisor, and then you must deploy a separate server like your ORACLE VM Management which deploy an agent on Oracle VM Server to manage it. In order to have a Cluster and Live Migration (Vmotion in vmware) you must configure a container, it will be a server pool. We got a bunch of physical servers running Oracle VM Server and their main objective it to virtualize servers that runs oracle products because oracle recognized as software portioning Oracle VM Server for licenses oracle products such like databases and WebLogic without licensing the whole processors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Licensing Management

- Partitioning Issues

- Consolidate Servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harold M.

Consultor de tecnologia

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/4/2019

"Bring order to several frameworks"

5/5

What do you like best about Oracle VM?

Oracle VM is very easy to install, without having to have deep and complex knowledge to create, run and even export virtual machines. Compared to VMWare, Oracle VM causes me a lot less problems, besides being a much cheaper solution. It also turns out to be very easy to configure and use, even for our senior employees, who are the ones with less computer skills. This makes Oracle VM the ideal choice for beginners in programming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle VM?

On more occasions than I would like, Oracle VM works slow. I think this is because its interface is unstable. Another thing is that it usually locks and shows an error message when certain tasks are being executed, and although this is not so common it really complicates our activities and delays us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a recommended tool for small businesses, with computers that have at least 8 GB of RAM and the rest of the decent resources. If your goal is to transmit work frames, this tool is for you. It is also ideal for programming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

In my company's IT department, all members use Oracle VM Virtual Box for different reasons. Personally, I use it to work with several frameworks, to bring order to each other. Also to run applications with basic hardware, without using the total resources of the main PC. We used VMWare before, but since we discovered Oracle VM 3 years ago, we can conclude that it works better, since it greatly facilitates our development process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Annie S.

Director Of Information Technology

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/20/2019

"Oracle VM for multiple different actions in the IT department"

5/5

What do you like best about Oracle VM?

Oracle VM makes it very easy and straightforward to configure a system and replicate specific hardware scenarios. It comes with guides that explain exactly how to get an optimum performance on your Virtual Machine. They are guiding you to every step, so it minimizes the chance of making mistakes. I love that it supports virtualization in several operating systems, such as: Windows, Linux, Warp Solaris / and even Android. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle VM?

The main issue of running Oracle VM is the memory usage, as it takes a lot of your RAM when it's running and your computer may run slower than usual. The Full screen mode is confusing too, as shortcuts are a bit difficult to remember. Also, the library where the VM is located could be arranged to be shown in a better display. The more powerful our computer is, the loss of performance will be noticed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Oracle VM:

OracleVM VirtualBox provides a safe environment for making all the testing you need on different OS. In the event that you are thinking to take Oracle VM for individual use, it's a good choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Oracle VM solving and how is that benefiting you?

Oracle VM is used for multiple different actions in the IT department, such as: test virtual machines, production machines and jumpboxes. It offers a safety environment for testing the compatibility of a new software into different OS. It is so easy to do this as the UI enables the client to change a large portion of the parameters included. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/27/2019

"Easy to setup and high performence"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Oracle VM?

- Virtualbox is a complete virtualization solution, works great on servers or home needs.

- The main advantage is the cost: zero. It offers all the virtualization technologies available in the market, compatibility with operating systems, through additional guests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Oracle VM?

- The only disappointment i have faced is the connection of a USB stick to the machine. I have did every possible way to get ti work, but i failed. There are no good tutorials on the internet about the software which i believe is the main draw back for this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.