Top 15 VirtualBox Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

Virtualbox is available in 28 languages.

1. VMware Fusion

VMware Fusion Seamlessly run your favorite Windows applications and devices, on any Intel-based Mac. Built from the ground up for the Mac, VMware Fusion is the easiest way to switch to Mac—letting you bring all of your Windows applications with you, making the most of your Windows software investment, while providing the......

2. VMware vCenter Converter

VMware vCenter Converter Automate and simplify physical to only VMware virtual machine conversions as well as conversions from other virtual machine formats to only vdmk with VMware vCenter Converter.With this robust, enterprise class migration tool you can (not convert to vhd): * Quickly and reliably convert local and remote physical machines into virtual......

3. QEMU

QEMU QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization.QEMU is a hosted virtual machine monitor: It emulates central processing units through dynamic binary translation and provides a set of device models, enabling it to run a variety of unmodified guest operating systems. It......

4. Portable Virtualbox

Portable Virtualbox Portable-VirtualBox is a free and open source software tool that lets you run any operating system from a usb stick without separate installation. It unpacks and adjusts the paths and configuration of VirtualBox so it will run portably. It will not support bridged networking through the virtualbox network......

5. JPC

JPC PC is the fast Java™ x86 PC emulator.Features: - 100% pure Java - Runs as an applet - Modular and customisable - Snapshot capability - Integrated debugger - Bulletproof security......

6. Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Microsoft Hyper-V Server Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2 is a stand-alone product that provides a reliable and optimized virtualization solution enabling organizations to improve server utilization and reduce costs. With the addition of new features such as live migration and expanded processor and memory support for host systems, it allows organizations to consolidate......

7. Q (kju)

Q (kju) Q is a free emulator software that runs on Mac OS X, including OS X on PowerPC. Q is Mike Kronenberg's port of the open source and generic processor emulator QEMU. Q uses Cocoa and other Apple technologies, such as Core Image and Core Audio, to achieve its emulation. Q......

8. SolusVM

SolusVM Solus Virtual Manager (SolusVM) is a powerful GUI based VPS management system with full OpenVZ, Linux KVM, Xen Paravirtualization and Xen HVM support. SolusVM allows you and your clients to manage a VPS cluster with security & ease.......

9. Spoonium

Spoonium Spoonium allows you to package applications and their dependencies into a lightweight, isolated virtual environment called a "container." Containerized ("Spooned") applications can then be run on any Windows machine that has Spoonium installed, no matter the underlying infrastructure. This eliminates installs, conflicts, breaks, and missing dependencies.Spoonium is 100% free for......

10. Deis

Deis Deis is an open source PaaS that leverages Docker, CoreOS and Heroku Buildpacks to provide a private application platform that is lightweight and flexible.......

11. VMware vSphere Hypervisor

VMware vSphere Hypervisor VMware vSphere Hypervisor ( based on ESXi ) is a free bare-metal hypervisor that virtualizes servers so you can consolidate your applications on less hardware.......

12. Kubernetes

Kubernetes Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers.It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions. Using the concepts of "labels" and "pods", it groups the containers which make up an application into logical......

13. Archipel

Archipel Archipel is a solution to manage and supervise virtual machines. No matter if you have a few locally on your computer or thousands through data centers, Archipel is a central solution to manage them all. You can use all libvirt-supported virtualization engines like KVM, Xen, OpenVZ or VMWare. You can......

14. Fig

Fig Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.......

15. JauntePE

JauntePE Windows portable app maker: launcher(s), runtime, and gui designed to help you run non-portable applications in a portable manner.......