When something is broken, especially security, in virtualbox, who fixes it and make the changes available? Hint: Oracle. It isn't free and requires using that-other-OS. Don't know much about it and I've never seen anyone actually use it in a corporate environment outside a lab deployment. and I hear the MSFT makes some hypervisor too. Inside a business, most people like testing groups would choose VMware Workstation over virtualbox or the free 'Player' offer. Virtualbox competes with the free version of VMware Player and it is good at what it does within those limitations. Virtualbox is good when ease of use without care of the license for desktop-on-desktop situations. It competes with VMware's ESXi + vSphere products.Īs with all things, there are trade-offs with every choice.
I honestly believe it is the fastest hypervisor in the world today - commercial or not.
Anything that any other hypervisor can do, KVM/qemu can accomplish too. It is used by enterprises like RH and Google and the best VPS providers like Linode and AWS. There's no PROOF that any hypervisor is more secure than any other to my knowledge, but KVM is what all the VPS providers in the world use, it is part of the core Linux kernel and maintained by that team. I'm not sure if I understand the difference between a desktop tool and an enterprise one.No.
