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Top Alternatives to VirtualBox

Looking for VirtualBox alternatives? We've curated 17 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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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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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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Xen

Xen

Open Source

Xen Project is a hypervisor using a microkernel design, providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.

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VMware vSphere Hypervisor

VMware vSphere Hypervisor is a free, bare-metal hypervisor from VMware that allows users to virtualize their servers and consolidate applications.

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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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Proxmox Virtual Environment

Proxmox VE is an open-source server virtualization management solution based on KVM and Linux Containers (LXC).

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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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Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Microsoft Hyper-V Server is a stand-alone hyper-visor based virtualization product which includes live migration.

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MobaLiveCD

MobaLiveCD

Open Source

MobaLiveCD is a freeware that will run your Linux LiveCD on Windows thanks to the excellent emulator called "Qemu".

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clearVM

clearVM

Commercial

clearVM is a private cloud management solution.

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Citrix XenServer

Citrix XenServer

Open Source

Citrix XenServer is the leading open source virtualization platform.

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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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BitBox

BitBox

Free

BitBox is a virtual surf environment software.

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