Every category where a model named Red Hat Virtualization 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%	51 of 78	33%	9	under 10 labels · led by Proxmox VE at 42%
Virtual desktops	IT operations and endpoint	0%	21 of 81	0%	3	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 Red Hat Virtualization 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 Red Hat Virtualization across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative11 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labels1

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Best for: Enterprises standardized on Red Hat/Linux and looking for a supported enterprise virtualization platform.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Server virtualization · comparative prompt · alternative

“open‑source solutions such as abcdesktop.io, Apache Guacamole, or Red Hat Virtualization are viable alternatives” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Virtual desktops · budget prompt · alternative

“Linux/Red Hat standardization: KVM/Red Hat virtualization stack” GPT-5.4 mini · Server virtualization · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best RHEL/CentOS Shops” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Server virtualization · paraphrase prompt · alternative

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.

“If you build your infrastructure today on RHV, you are building on land that will eventually be condemned.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Server virtualization · negative prompt · hard negative

“Red Hat Virtualization – Deprecated ... Avoid for new projects” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Server virtualization · negative prompt · hard negative

“Red Hat has deprecated Red Hat Virtualization in favor of Red Hat OpenShift” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Server virtualization · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Red Hat Virtualization, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Red Hat Virtualization was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Proxmox VE21 of 281Not among the top eight

VMware vSphere20 of 2810Not among the top eight

Microsoft Hyper-V20 of 283Not among the top eight

Nutanix AHV15 of 284Not among the top eight

KVM10 of 280Not among the top eight

Citrix Hypervisor8 of 280Not among the top eight

oVirt5 of 280Not among the top eight

Amazon WorkSpaces4 of 280Not among the top eight

Oracle VM VirtualBox4 of 280Not among the top eight

Citrix DaaS3 of 281Not 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 Red Hat Virtualization. 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 22 of the 28 answers that named Red Hat Virtualization and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

techdogs.com9

gitnux.org8

g2.com7

guideflow.com7

techbullion.com7

thectoclub.com7

linkedin.com6

v2cloud.com6

virtualizationhowto.com6

devopsschool.com5

Sixty-eight of the sixty-eight domain citations in answers naming Red Hat Virtualization came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/server-virtualization-software7

techbullion.com/6-best-server-virtualization-platforms-for-enterprise-data-centers7

techdogs.com/td-articles/product-mine/best-server-virtualization-software6

thectoclub.com/tools/best-server-virtualization-software6

v2cloud.com/blog/top-5-virtualization-platforms6

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-virtualization-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison5

diskinternals.com/vmfs-recovery/hypervisor-comparison4

g2.com/categories/server-virtualization4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

redhat.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Red Hat Virtualization takes 0% of first choices and Proxmox VE takes 42%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “server virtualization platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “server virtualization platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 390 a month (“red hat virtualization”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 39 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 1,347,338 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 147,391 · 16,512 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 105,781
Paid Google search: 5 searches its ads show for, about 20 clicks and $281 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

117+ ads · 117 text · 117 shown in the last 30 days

First shown July 2023, as Red Hat, LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 61 in the year, 56 before. 3 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 51 of 78 in server virtualization

Segment leader

42%

Proxmox VE

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 28 answers
Its own site cited: in 22 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on redhat.com

13,605

subdomains included

Content

3,373

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

1 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
News or press	1,934	1	2026-07-08	API management, Object storage
Blog	1,265	10	2026-09-25	API management, Object storage
Conference or event	113	0	2021-06-07
Webinar or virtual event	29	0	2020-09-28
Case study	13	0	2021-06-30
Comparison	8	0	2018-05-21
Report or ebook	6	0	2021-05-20
Podcast or video	4	0	2025-06-05
Glossary or explainer	1	undated

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Events in person

Upcoming

October 8, 2026Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 LondonLondon, UK · hosts
October 27, 2026Unlocking OpenShift Virtualization: A technical deep dive into migrating VMsLondon, UK · hosts
November 17, 2026Ansible Automation Platform to defend, contain and comply with vulnerability lifecycle managementLondon, UK · hosts

Last twelve months

June 30, 2026You're invited to the Red Hat and AWS Reception | AWS Summit DCCity Tap House · hosted
May 11, 2026 to May 14, 20262026 年红帽全球峰会Atlanta · took part
January 28, 2026Observability That Powers Smarter AI DeploymentsExpo hall · spoke
January 26, 2026 to January 29, 2026Visit Red Hat at Dynatrace Perform 2026Las Vegas, United States · exhibited

As the event pages on redhat.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page redhat.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name API management (11); 0 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Red Hat Virtualization

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

Red Hat Virtualization (KVM-based) 1Red Hat Virtualization (RHV / oVirt) 1Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 1Red Hat virtualization / KVM-based stacks 1

Follow Red Hat Virtualization

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

Red Hat Virtualization is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Customers named: U.S. Department Of DefenseU.S. NavyBrightly SoftwarePorsche Informatik
Not stated on the pages read: Positioning, who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Red Hat Virtualization's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: redhat.com, redhat.com/zh-cn/trust, redhat.com/en/solutions/public-sector/dod-devsecops, redhat.com/zh-cn/customers, redhat.com/zh-cn/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Red Hat Virtualization'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 Red Hat Virtualization, 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 Red Hat Virtualization by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Red Hat Virtualization 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 Red Hat Virtualization, 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.