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Oracle VM Server for x86

4Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

4 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Oracle VM Server for x86 was named 3 times in Server virtualization, where Proxmox VE led with 42%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market74 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprise68 of 88

under the label threshold

In server virtualization · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Oracle VM Server for x86 for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Server virtualization platforms	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	74 of 78	100%	3	under 10 labels · led by Proxmox VE at 42%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Oracle VM Server for x86 yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Oracle VM Server for x86 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

No positive label carried a quote.

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Why to Avoid: Oracle VM Server (which was Xen-based) will no longer receive new security patches, bug fixes, or hardware enablement.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Server virtualization · negative prompt · hard negative

“Older or legacy options like Oracle VM Server for x86 or similarly aging stacks” Perplexity Sonar · Server virtualization · negative prompt · hard negative

“older, not actively developed for new workloads” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Server virtualization · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Oracle VM Server for x86, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Oracle VM Server for x86 was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

VMware vSphere4 of 41Not among the top eight

Proxmox VE3 of 41Not among the top eight

Citrix Hypervisor3 of 40Not among the top eight

Nutanix AHV3 of 40Not among the top eight

Microsoft Hyper-V2 of 41Not among the top eight

Microsoft Hyper-V Server2 of 41Not among the top eight

KVM2 of 40Not among the top eight

Oracle VM VirtualBox2 of 40Not among the top eight

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization2 of 40Not among the top eight

XCP-ng2 of 40Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Oracle VM Server for x86. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 4 of the 4 answers that named Oracle VM Server for x86 and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ciopages.com3

oracle.comYour site3

cio.com2

cloudinfra.blog2

databank.com2

guideflow.com2

instelligence.io2

spectrocloud.com2

techradar.com2

v2cloud.com2

Nineteen of the twenty-two domain citations in answers naming Oracle VM Server for x86 came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/virtualization-platform3

cloudinfra.blog/why-proxmox-is-not-enterprise-ready-a-technical-breakdown2

guideflow.com/blog/server-virtualization-software2

instelligence.io/enterprises2

oracle.com/assets/oracle-vm-virtualbox-overview-2981353.pdf2

oracle.com/de/a/ocom/docs/dc/em/oracle-vm-virtualbox-overview-2981353.pdf2

spectrocloud.com/blog/vsphere-alternatives2

v2cloud.com/blog/top-5-virtualization-platforms2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Oracle VM Server for x86

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Oracle VM Server for x86; a claim can dispute any of them.

Oracle VM Server (OVM) for x86 1

Follow Oracle VM Server for x86

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Oracle is the company behind Oracle VM Server for x86.

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On record

Company records

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Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Oracle VM Server for x86's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Oracle VM Server for x86, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Oracle VM Server for x86 by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Oracle VM Server for x86 is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Oracle VM Server for x86, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.