VirtualBox
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server virtualization platforms | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 75 of 78 | 80% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Proxmox VE at 42% | |
| Virtual desktops | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 53 of 81 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Azure Virtual Desktop at 22% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated VirtualBox across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“best for free, open-source local virtualization” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Virtual desktops · comparative 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.
“VirtualBox for production server virtualization: it is a free Type 2 hypervisor, which makes it more appropriate for desktop/test use than for production server infrastructure.” Perplexity Sonar · Server virtualization · negative prompt · hard negative
“deprecated for enterprise (e.g., avoid VirtualBox for servers—it's desktop-oriented)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Server virtualization · negative prompt · hard negative
“widely used for development, testing and lab environments rather than production-scale VDI” Muse Glimmer 30B · Virtual desktops · budget prompt · soft negative
“VirtualBox 6.1 and 7.0 are both end-of-life and no longer receive security patches” MiniMax M2.5 · Server virtualization · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as VirtualBox, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and VirtualBox was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 24 of the 25 answers that named VirtualBox and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for VirtualBox, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where VirtualBox stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 74,000 a month (“virtualbox”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 7,895 a month
- Its own site
- No site of its own on file, so no site figures
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 25 answers
- Its own site cited
- No site on file to match
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.
Follow 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.
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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 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 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 VirtualBox by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where 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 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.