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Top Alternatives to Virtual PC

Looking for Virtual PC alternatives? We've curated 16 top alternatives that offer similar functionality. Whether you need options, free plans, or open source solutions, explore our comprehensive list to find the perfect fit for your needs.

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VirtualBox

VirtualBox

Open Source

VirtulaBox is an open source software to run virtual systems on top of a physical system. Virtual systems are normally used for providing separate environment for each client sharing a single physical system.

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VMware Workstation

VMware Workstation

Commercial

VMware Workstation is a hosted hypervisor that runs on x64 versions of Windows and Linux operating systems.

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VMware Workstation Player

VMware Workstation Player, formerly VMware Player, is a virtualization software package for x64 computers running Microsoft Windows or Linux.

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QEMU

QEMU

Open Source

QEMU (short for Quick Emulator) is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization QEMU is a hosted virtual machine monitor.

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Docker

Docker

Freemium

Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether on laptops, data center VMs, or the cloud.

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Parallels Desktop

Parallels Desktop

Commercial

Parallels Desktop for Mac, by Parallels, is software providing hardware virtualization for Macintosh computers with Intel processors.

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VMware Fusion

VMware Fusion

Commercial

VMware Fusion is a software hypervisor developed by VMware for Macintosh computers. VMware Fusion allows Intel-based Macs to run operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris on virtual machines, along with their Mac OS X operating system using a combination of paravirtualization, hardware virtualization and dynamic recompilation.

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KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel that turns it into a hypervisor. It was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in kernel version 2.6.20.

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virt-manager

virt-manager

Open Source

virt-manager, is a desktop-driven virtual machine manager with which users can manage virtual machines.

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Portable Virtualbox

Portable Virtualbox

Open Source

Portable-VirtualBox is a free and open source software tool that lets you run any operating system from a usb stick without separate installation.

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Boot Camp

Boot Camp

Free

Boot Camp Assistant is a multi boot utility included with Mac OS X that assists users in installing Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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clearVM

clearVM

Commercial

clearVM is a private cloud management solution.

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Kubernetes

Kubernetes

Open Source

Kubernetes ("K8s") is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management.

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bochs

bochs

Open Source

Bochs (box) is a portable IA-32 and x86-64 IBM PC compatible emulator and debugger mostly written in C++ and distributed as free software under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

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Apache Mesos

Apache Mesos

Open Source

Apache Mesos is an open-source project to manage computer clusters.

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BitBox

BitBox

Free

BitBox is a virtual surf environment software.

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