VirtualBox vs Hyper-V, What's the Best Virtualization Tool?

VirtualBox and Hyper-V are both popular virtualization tools, and both have generous free options. That said, they both have specific use cases they excel at. We discuss the differences between the two so you can decide which tool is right for your business.

[rjstewart]

Sure if you run Core in a server environment Hyper-V is not a beginner hypervisor.

In reality though someone who wants to run Hyper-V at home on Windows 10 simply goes into Features and turns it on and at that point from their point of view it’s not different than virtual box in concept.

[anoniemoss]

This has been my recent experience just trying to install Ubuntu server 24.04

Virtual Box:
Not as fast, but easier to get up and going. Easier to setup networking and port forwarding. Also, if if the session locks up or won't shut down, it's easier to just stop it.

Hyper-V: (win 11 pro)
It not hard to install, your basically just enabled it as s feature. It is fast. It just seems to lack the configureability of Virtual Box. I had to stop Ubuntu server install mid way through. HyperV would not let me stop the session. I had to use powershell as admin to locate the VM id and kill it that way. If I really needed to run a production use VM I would probably still use this for performance, but as a learning tool to tinker with os distro's its not a great place to start.

[LotBoy]

I have used virtualbox, Hyper-V, and VMware workstation player. I like to test them out.

[SqueezeOJ]

I've recently ran into a problem running VirtualBox on a Windows 10 Pro machine that also had Hyper-V enabled. In fact, I was forced to remove Hyper-V until a patch is made.

[JNET_Reloaded]

so you wouldnt reccomend hyper-v for linux mint web server then?

[brandonreptilianclassiib]

Which method would be best to run a software firewall (pfsense?) on a Windows Server with 4 NICs?

[xali]

Is Hyper-V similar to KVM in Linux? does Hyper-V support GPU passthrough?

[doctorfresh]

Hey! I need help! I am running windows 10 Pro, can install WIndows 7 Ultimate 32bit on Hyper-V?

[Excalibear]

Can you do a guide on how to disguise or make Hyper-V stealthy?

[notnecessary]

Can you run a container in a VB in a HV in a container in a VB in a HV??

[erenyeagersasageyo]

So which virtual machine is best for installing viruses?

[chulangjj]

you and goto programs and features in control panel and use turn on or off features

[janX]

Help please.

I'm looking to run old software and games on modern hardware and Windows 10.

Will W10 Hyper-V work well with Win95 and XP VMs?

I've always used VirtualBox in the past. Are there performance or feature caveats between Hyper-V vs VirtualBox?

[bigpapikane]

I have windows 10 pro, and want to use hyper v, can I install windows XP if I wanted to?

[Rasthro]

I really thought you needed hyper-v to run any virtual machines on any virtualization software lol so i was dumb enaough and enabled hyper-v

[rui]

I use VirtualBox and VMware. VMware performance is better

[waredsoussi-yeuf]

VMware EFI is not logo I don't like VMware

[nirv]

haha why in the hell do all these people on youtube have speech impediments? Geeshes Hsh.™