Every category where a model named Oracle VM VirtualBox 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%	78 of 78	86%	7	under 10 labels · led by Proxmox VE at 42%
Virtual desktops	IT operations and endpoint	0%	76 of 81	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Azure Virtual Desktop at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Oracle VM VirtualBox 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 VirtualBox across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	2
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	1

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

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative22 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 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: These are designed to run *inside* a computer, not *as* the computer.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Server virtualization · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid for production server consolidation, HA/DR, or performance-sensitive workloads.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Server virtualization · negative prompt · hard negative

“Recurring severe security vulnerabilities ... potential VM-escape attacks” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Virtual desktops · negative prompt · hard negative

“Oracle VM VirtualBox – Avoid for Production” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Server virtualization · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Oracle VM VirtualBox, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Oracle VM VirtualBox was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

VMware vSphere24 of 303Not among the top eight

Proxmox VE23 of 3010Not among the top eight

Nutanix AHV20 of 301Not among the top eight

Microsoft Hyper-V19 of 305Not among the top eight

Citrix Hypervisor15 of 300Not among the top eight

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization14 of 300Not among the top eight

XCP-ng9 of 301Not among the top eight

Parallels Desktop6 of 300Not among the top eight

VMware Workstation6 of 300Not among the top eight

KVM5 of 300Not 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 VirtualBox. 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 29 of the 30 answers that named Oracle VM VirtualBox and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gitnux.org18

guideflow.com12

v2cloud.com12

ciopages.com11

us.fitgap.com11

cloudchipr.com7

databank.com7

dev.to7

g2.com7

cyberpanel.net6

Ninety-eight of the ninety-eight domain citations in answers naming Oracle VM VirtualBox came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gitnux.org/best/server-virtualization-software15

guideflow.com/blog/server-virtualization-software12

v2cloud.com/blog/top-5-virtualization-platforms12

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/virtualization-platform11

cloudchipr.com/blog/vmware-alternatives7

cyberpanel.net/blog/server-virtualization6

dev.to/leo_at_stack/10-best-vmware-alternatives-for-enterprise-in-2026-451h6

windowsforum.com/threads/virtualization-in-2026-top-7-platforms-hybrid-cloud-and-licensing6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Oracle VM VirtualBox stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 6,600 a month (“oracle vm virtualbox”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 98 a month
Its own site: It sits on Oracle's site (oracle.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 78 of 78 in server virtualization

Segment leader

42%

Proxmox VE

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 30 answers
Its own site cited: in 29 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Oracle VM VirtualBox

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

Oracle VirtualBox 4

Follow Oracle VM VirtualBox

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.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Oracle is the company behind Oracle VM VirtualBox.

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On record

Company records

Also from Oracle: Oracle AI, Oracle API Gateway, Oracle API Management, Oracle Access Governance, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Autonomous AI Database, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, Oracle Autonomous Database and 44 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: open source virtualization software that allows users to run multiple operating system on a single device, and easily deploy to cloud
oracle.com/ae/virtualization/virtualbox
For: developers, IT teams and solution providers
oracle.com/ae/virtualization/virtualbox
Price stated: Free download oracle.com/ae/virtualization/virtualbox
Free plan or trial: Free download oracle.com/apac/virtualization/virtualbox
Customers named: Secunet
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Oracle VM VirtualBox's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: oracle.com/ae/virtualization/virtualbox, oracle.com/apac/virtualization/virtualbox, oracle.com/asean/virtualization/virtualbox, oracle.com/latam/virtualization/virtualbox, oracle.com/africa/virtualization/virtualbox. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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 VirtualBox'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 VirtualBox, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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

where Oracle VM VirtualBox 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 VirtualBox, 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.