--- title: VirtualBox Reviews meta\_title: 'VirtualBox Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 294 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how VirtualBox works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 294 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # VirtualBox Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by VirtualBox but has limited features. Are you part of the VirtualBox team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Oracle VM VirtualBox is a free, open-source, cross-platform virtualization software that enables users to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single device. Designed for IT professionals and developers, VirtualBox supports Windows, macOS, Linux, and Oracle Solaris as host operating systems, making it ideal for testing, development, demonstration, and deployment across diverse platforms. Key Features and Functionality: - Cross-Platform Compatibility: VirtualBox runs on various host operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and Oracle Solaris, and supports a wide range of guest operating systems. - High Performance: The software leverages the latest in chip-level support for virtualization, including support for AMD, Intel, and Apple silicon processors, to provide faster execution times for guest operating systems. - 3D Graphics Support: VirtualBox includes VBoxSVGA and VMSVGA interfaces to improve 3D graphics performance. - USB Device Support: It implements a virtual USB controller, allowing users to connect arbitrary USB devices to virtual machines without installing device-specific drivers on the host. - Disk Image Encryption: VirtualBox supports 128 or 256-bit data encryption keys, enabling transparent encryption of data stored in hard disk images using the AES algorithm. - Remote Machine Display: The VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension (VRDE) enables high-performance remote access to running virtual machines, supporting the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) with additional features like full client USB support. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: VirtualBox addresses several key challenges for its users: - Cost Reduction: By allowing multiple operating systems to run on a single device, VirtualBox reduces the need for multiple physical machines, thereby lowering hardware and operational costs. - Development Efficiency: Developers can test applications across different operating systems and versions using the same desktop environment, accelerating the development and testing process. - Simplified Software Distribution: Solution providers can distribute applications within a VirtualBox virtual machine, ensuring compatibility across various operating systems and versions without additional configuration. - Legacy Application Support: IT teams can extend the lifespan of legacy applications by running them on modern hardware through VirtualBox, avoiding the need for costly application rewrites or hardware replacements. - Secure Remote Access: VirtualBox facilitates secure access to restricted applications for remote workers by providing encrypted and isolated environments, ensuring data security and compliance without extensive rearchitecting of applications. In summary, Oracle VM VirtualBox offers a versatile and efficient solution for running multiple operating systems on a single device, enhancing development workflows, reducing costs, and providing secure, cross-platform compatibility for various IT needs. * * * Seller [Oracle](https://www.g2.com/sellers/oracle) Discussions [VirtualBox Community](https://www.g2.com/products/virtualbox/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Parnian Taidi Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 10 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/virtualbox/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Citrix DaaS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Citrix DaaS") Citrix DaaS 4.1/5(546) ](https://www.g2.com/products/citrix-citrix-daas/reviews) [ ![VMware vSphere](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "VMware vSphere") VMware vSphere 4.5/5(769) ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsphere/reviews) [ ![VMware Workstation Pro](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "VMware Workstation Pro") VMware Workstation Pro 4.5/5(139) ](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-workstation-pro/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/virtualbox/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 294 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## VirtualBox Integrations (1) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Windows 11 ](https://www.g2.com/products/windows-11/reviews) Show More ![Prajwal G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Prajwal G.") PG Prajwal G. Jr. Network Engineer Computer & Network Security Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/25/2026 "Easy, Free Virtualization for Running Multiple OS on One Machine" 4/5 What do you like best about VirtualBox? VirtualBox is easy to set up and works well for running multiple operating systems on a single machine. I like that it is free, open-source, and supports a wide range of guest OS options. It is especially useful for learning, testing, and lab environments without needing additional hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VirtualBox? Performance can sometimes feel slower compared to other virtualization tools, especially with graphics-intensive workloads. The user interface feels a bit outdated, and configuring advanced networking or USB passthrough can be confusing for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you? VirtualBox solves the problem of safely testing and running multiple operating systems on a single machine. It allows me to experiment with different environments, tools, and configurations without affecting my main system. This is especially useful for learning, testing, and troubleshooting, as it reduces risk and saves time and hardware costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise.G2 Icon 4/18/2026 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile SP Sam P. Cyber Security Consultant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/10/2026 "Versatile and Reliable, but the UI Feels Dated" 3.5/5 What do you like best about VirtualBox? The best part is the versatility. VirtualBox handles a wide range of guest OSes, integrates well with snapshots and shared folders, and performs reliably for development and testing. The pricing is unbeatable, and while support is mostly community‑driven, it’s active enough to solve most issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VirtualBox? The UI is functional but dated. It works, but it hasn’t really evolved, and some settings feel buried or unintuitive. A cleaner, more modern interface would make a big difference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you? It solves the problem of running multiple operating systems for development and testing. Snapshots, shared folders, and cross‑platform support make it useful for trying out configurations or reproducing issues. The benefit is a flexible, low‑cost virtualisation setup that works well enough for most non‑production tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Harsimran S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Harsimran S.") HS Harsimran S. Design, Implementations and Deployments Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/19/2023 "Low cost high benefit hypervisor, but not as much for scale." 4/5 What do you like best about VirtualBox? Free to try; all updates are also free. Practically provides zero-cost hypervisor cost multi-OS lab environments. Pretty reliable and stable and won't let you down. Straightforward to use and fuss-free as compared to VMware. Nice support forums. File transfer, disk sharing & snapshots options are easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VirtualBox? Performance is low in comparison to others. Error details are not as precise for troubleshooting as they should be. Not fully proven for cloud-native environments. 6wind, vpp support isn't as great. Not many settings can be done automatically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you? Having a central desktop environment across various teams to access office lab infra remotely. We have 100s of VMs where testing is done for different versions of our product at same time. Load simulation environments are shared directly with customer labs for their benchmarking. We have VMs with 40 + snapshots for different customers - regression testing is done on a customer basis whenever needed. Patch testing turnaround has increased a lot. Testing for customers with multisite, with each site having old/new versions of our software along with different OS releases, has become very fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Carlos V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Carlos V.") CV Carlos V. CTO Entertainment Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/29/2023 "The home use x86, AMD64/Intel64 virtualizator." 3.5/5 What do you like best about VirtualBox? The graphic user interface, that has a good user experience, and makes very easy to use it. It is Open Source Software. It is possible to tune the specs guest machine, so you can control how many resources is going to use the host. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VirtualBox? Sometimes is hard to set up some details, like network, screen size for the guest desktop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you? I can test code, or do proof of concepts in a clean, isolated and secure environment, for different OS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shahbaz T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shahbaz T.") ST Shahbaz T. Senior Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/8/2023 "Virtualbox is a solid solution for running local development environments." 4/5 What do you like best about VirtualBox? Virtualbox allows me to run local environments that are exact mirrors of production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VirtualBox? It can be cumbersom to work with at times. Upgrading can be problematic and has rendered my virtual machines inaccessible. But this is rare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you? I am able to replicate production environments locally and develop and test and reduce fricition between local, staging, UAT and production environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Victor P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Victor P.") VP Victor P. Owner Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/8/2023 "Not bad, for a free product" 3.5/5 What do you like best about VirtualBox? VirtualBox can run many operating systems, including various Linux distributions one may have wanted to try but wasn't willing to devote an actual machine to. It's more flexible than commercial products that limit you to specific operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VirtualBox? VirtualBox isn't the most efficient or performant virtual machine host, and it's not exactly the most aesthetically polished software, either, with some user interface oddities and annoyances—at least for those who care about such things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you? When I want to try out the user experience on various operating systems' graphical user interfaces (GUIs), I load them into VirtualBox, so I can easily compare them side by side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") UA Verified User in Automotive Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/22/2022 "Install OS easily :)" 4/5 What do you like best about VirtualBox? I have installed Windows 10 through VirtualBox, quite happy using it. 1. While being on Linux you can use Windows on Virtual Box very easily. 2. It is easy for a beginner to use and follow the steps. 3. The service documentation provided on how to use it is very simple. Also, there's a huge segment of people using it, so a good number of community blogs to refer to. 4. It's an open-source tool. So there isn't a cost that you need to pay for basic installation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VirtualBox? 1. The cursor speed is slightly slow, which makes me a little impatient. 2. The setup might require freeing up some space as it did in my case, there is no virtual memory allocated. So this might take some time and space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you? As a data scientist Linux is the work environment that I prefer. But for a particular client, we had to get access to the environment and data on Windows 10 and work for it within the same environment. So I made use of VirtualBox while having a parallel Windows 10 environment in a Linux system. So it worked well for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/10/2021 "Quick and Easy VM's with VirtualBox" 4/5 What do you like best about VirtualBox? Virtual Box removes or preconfigures a lot of the more technical decisions that need to be made when creating VMs. Creating a VM in other systems can be pretty daunting for novice IT people, so I like the fact that I can give Virtual Box to a semi-non-technical user and they can start bringing up VMs pretty quickly. For a while, Virtual Box was my platform of choice because of the absolute simplicity to bring up new boxes, and I could do it in exactly the same way, every time, whether I was on Linux, Windows, or Mac. The user interface is exactly the same on all the platforms. From my perspective, supporting people in a variety of environments, they can setup their preferred system, and I can guide them over the phone, click for click, exactly the same no matter what they were on. This applies both to the initial installation of Virtual Box as well as using in regular usage. It's super simple to install and setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VirtualBox? Virtual Box just had to go and create their own type of virtual disk image format. There are already well accepted disk image formats, but no, not good enough for Virtual Box, they had to make their own. I think that's a waste of creative resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering VirtualBox: Full disclosure, I am not currently using Virtual Box actively for my own work. I have switched over to KVM with Virtual Machine Manager on ubuntu for my own work, but I can recommend Virtual Box to my customers who need a VM to come up quick without a lot of setup & admin overhead. I recommend Virtual Box for those situations where you just need it to come up with a minimal hassle, and it doesn't have to be necessarily high-availability/high-uptime kinds of systems, but gets you a quick test VM with minimal hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you? When my customers need a test machine, or different platform of some kind, I can easily guide them through the process of setting up Virtual Box over the phone, and guide them click-for-click thru building out the VM they need. Once they do it themselves once, they can drop right in and do it without me because Virtual Box is so simplified. Some of my users are doing software testing from their home machines, and with Virtual Box they can do things a lot more simply and directly than they would with say HyperV or VMWare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JD Jeff D. CEO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/22/2021 "VirtualBox is a zero-cost option for decent virtualization" 3.5/5 What do you like best about VirtualBox? VirtualBox is cross-platform, supported by Oracle, and can virtualize most operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VirtualBox? VirtualBox works for the most part but sometimes is a bit flakey and crashes unexpectedly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you? My primary virtualization tool is VMWare but sometimes I need to use virtualization on an older unsupported OS or on a system where I don't have a VMWare license. VirtualBox fills this gap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Biotechnology](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Biotechnology") UB Verified User in Biotechnology Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/29/2021 "Virtualbox" 3.5/5 What do you like best about VirtualBox? I like that VirtualBox allows me to virtualize environments that I need locally on my computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about VirtualBox? I dislike that the program is very hit or miss and takes really long to load. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering VirtualBox: Great solutions once you iron out all of the details and don't make adjustments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is VirtualBox solving and how is that benefiting you? I use VirtualBox to virtualize environments that I need locally on my computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about VirtualBox? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about VirtualBox ](https://www.g2.com/products/virtualbox/discussions/new) ![eleomar d.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "eleomar d.") ED eleomar delfin • Last activity over 4 years ago How easy is it to install VirtualBox and what is it used for? 1 Upvote 2 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/10403-que-ta-facil-es-instalar-virtual-box-y-para-que-nos-sirve) GU Guest User What is VirtualBox used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-virtualbox-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/virtualbox/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 10 months ### Average Discount 14% [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/virtualbox/pricing) VirtualBox Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_2e509cbdbb6beddefe5e29332965118f/qemu.png "Product Avatar Image") QEMU 4.3/5(29) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/qemu-vs-virtualbox) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_98e610de8df93165a368af1a1b131d4b/vmware-workstation-pro.png "Product Avatar Image") Workstation Pro 4.5/5(139) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/vmware-workstation-pro-vs-virtualbox) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_718f104d21f43dd9840c5a2a6e528adb/citrix-citrix-daas.png "Product Avatar Image") Citrix DaaS 4.1/5(546) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/citrix-citrix-daas-vs-virtualbox) ##### ##### VirtualBox Features Functionality Desktop Virtualization Application Virtualization OS Integration Desktop Management Desktop Provisioning Image Management Load Balancing Support Multi-Device Portability Security Two-Factor Authentication Single Sign-On (SSO) Encryption [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/virtualbox/features) ## Consulting Services for VirtualBox [ ![Accenture](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Accenture") Accenture 4.2/5(107) ](https://www.g2.com/products/accenture/reviews) [See all VirtualBox Providers](https://www.g2.com/products/virtualbox/implementation) ##### Categories on G2 [Server Virtualization](https://www.g2.com/categories/server-virtualization)[Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)](https://www.g2.com/categories/virtual-desktop-infrastructure-vdi) ##### Explore More [What is the most reliable breach and attack simulation software for a mid-size security team that needs to run simulations regularly without a six-figure professional services engagement?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-most-reliable-breach-and-attack-simulation-software-for-a-mid-size-security-team-that-needs-to-run-simulations-regularly-without-a-six-figure-professional-services-engagement%20)[Best enterprise risk management software in 2025](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-best-enterprise-risk-management-erm-software-for-businesses-in-2025)[Is Accenture worth it for Adobe consulting services?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-accenture-worth-it-for-adobe-consulting-services) [Best-reviewed managed detection and response software](https://www.g2.com/discussions/best-reviewed-managed-detection-and-response-software)[Best automatic dialing programs for business use](https://www.g2.com/discussions/best-automatic-dialing-programs-for-business-use)[Pros and Cons Details](https://www.g2.com/products/virtualbox/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)