--- title: Red Hat Virtualization Reviews meta\_title: 'Red Hat Virtualization Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 15 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Red Hat Virtualization works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 15 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Red Hat Virtualization Reviews & Product Details Red Hat Virtualization (formerly Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization) provides server and desktop virtualization tools * * * Seller [Red Hat](https://www.g2.com/sellers/red-hat) Discussions [Red Hat Virtualization Community](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-virtualization/discuss) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-virtualization/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![VMware vSphere](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "VMware vSphere") VMware vSphere 4.5/5(768) ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsphere/reviews) [ ![Proxmox VE](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Proxmox VE") Proxmox VE 4.6/5(37) ](https://www.g2.com/products/proxmox-ve/reviews) [ ![Oracle VM](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Oracle VM") Oracle VM 4.3/5(73) ](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-vm/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/red-hat-virtualization/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 15 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Ron G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ron G.") RG Ron G. Infrastructure Architect/Capacity Planner Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/2/2016 "As an Enterprise Architet, I deal with the virtualization capabilities of Red Hat on a daily basis." 4/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization? Red Hat allows for an easy, standardized image to be quickly applied into our cloud environment; typically in less than an hour. This allows us to provide prompt delivery of approved, architected solutions for our user community. The users can get their applications up and running in a day versus several weeks using a standard process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization? Sometimes, more specialized needs are cumbersome to implement into a cloud environment, often requiring multiple phases, which slows down the delivery SLA for the user community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Virtualization: Get the Red Hat virtualization, your customers and users will be thrilled a=by the delivery responsiveness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you? The Red Hat virtualization allows us to quickly implement and adjust environments for our users so that they can implement their development, testing and production environment with the minimum delay. This speedy turn-around makes for 'happier' customers and improved delivery of mission critical applications, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![John B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "John B.") JB John B. Non Executive Director Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/31/2016 "Secure, enterprise support and extremely reliable" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization? It is as solid as a rock, installation is quick and the OS is secure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization? Relatively high cost to purchase and maintain It is not easy to integrate in a Windows AD domain environment, kerberos configuration is pretty tricky Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you? Needed a secure and supported operating system for core business applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Srinivas G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Srinivas G.") SG Srinivas G. Senior Software Developer at Dell Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/30/2015 "Exciting but lacks respect" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization? Ease of use Troubleshooting is a lot easier given you have some experience with Linux. Customization is easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization? You need someone with Linux experience to use this. Constant comparison with VMWare products/features. Rate at which features and product is getting matured. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Virtualization: It gets most of your virtualization related work done. If you have some experience on Linux then supporting/hosting the software is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you? I help solve customer problems. Most of the times at least in India, customer interest on RHEV is for dev,/test environment. Unless RedHat finds better way to market its product its difficult for folks like me to make a customer believe in the product.. Some of the popular requests have been around. Security, Connectivity, HA and DR. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite 亚 亚东 . Software Engineer Semiconductors Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/8/2015 "easy, fast, open, and cost-effective Desktop Virtualization" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization? It is very simple to migrate [virtual machines] from other hypervisor platforms into REV. In addition to the desktop virtualization, REV 2.2 introduces a number of other new features. Chief among them is the ability to import virtual machines from platforms, such as those offered by VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. To this end, REV uses the Open Virtualization Format (OVF), an open standard for virtual machine images. This is also the first release to include the V2V virtual machine conversion software, which can convert VMware or Xen virtual machines created within Red Hat Enterprise Linux into KVM virtual machines. REV also includes a data warehouse for monitoring the performance and usage of virtual machines, the data from which can be piped into most other SQL-based business intelligence tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization? Security and performance is a challenge for this product. the interface could be more friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Virtualization: no special recommendations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you? desktop visualization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") IA Verified User in Automotive Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/12/2016 "Simple & Effective Virtualization" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization? Red Hat Desktop Virtualization is simple compared to other platforms. I really like that the program is completely open source. This product is affordable and powerful - the ideal solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization? There is nothing that I dislike about the Red Hat Desktop Virtualization program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Virtualization: Definitely give this program a try, it is very effective and user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you? I am just beginning to test the full functionality of this virtualization tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/25/2016 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Emile S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Emile S.") ES Emile S. Developer Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/5/2015 "Virtualized desktops prevent catastrophes in big organizations" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization? The Red Hat API documentation is very thorough and it is a well established company that has a proven track record. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization? It can be challenging for established companies to get this implemented given all the legacy systems they already have in place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you? Keeping desktop software consistent throughout an office is invaluable and greatly reduces IT support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Maria R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Maria R.") MR Maria R. Software Consultant Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/7/2016 "Red Hat User" 4/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization? What I like most is its cross-platform, good price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization? What I like least is that the installation of this program is a little complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you? Creates a Linux environment on a Windows OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Satish S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Satish S.") SS Satish S. Sr Middleware Expert Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/17/2015 "Red Hat provides a complete virtualization solution for Desktops" 4/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization? I like the innovative idea that Red Hat came up with virtualization of the Desktops. The desktop virtualization is the complete open source solution that no vendor dependency is there. The performance is super for the windows and linux users. Due to this high performance we can be confident that it will power our virtual machine workloads. The cost is at the lower end so it affordable to everyone. The the enterprise features are present in this virtual desktop solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization? Nothing much to dislike like the initial stages it more risky with security and storage. since we put more VMs for one host, if the host machine breaks we need to take out more VM servers outage for an application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Red Hat Virtualization: defintely recommend it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you? Entire enterprise applications are run on the virtual servers. The performance and utilization of resources considerably went to optimum levels with this virtual server concept. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite EL Ernesto L. Network Manager Telecommunications Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/13/2015 "Interesting and robust" 4/5 What do you like best about Red Hat Virtualization? Different options to virtualize the product to install Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Red Hat Virtualization? the interface is not customer friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Red Hat Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you? What business problems are you solving? What benefits have you realized? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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