Top 15 Parallels Workstation Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

+ Professional-grade Virtualization for PCs:
Simultaneously run a wide variety of Windows versions, Linux distributions, web stacks, database configurations, and multi-tier cloud environments on a single PC with the power and performance you need for web development, QA testing, product demonstrations, and more.

+ Simplify Your Routine:
Improve your productivity and the way you work everyday so that you can focus on your job, not on your virtualization software. Easily move a physical machine to a virtual machine using Parallels Transporter, an integrated tool to make migrating to a VM a snap. Brilliantly handle USB devices, easily configure virtual networking, and automate routine tasks. Improve your user experience with the ability to move between environments, share files, cut and paste information and even drag and drop between Windows systems. ...

1. Virtual PC

Virtual PC Virtual PC is a powerful software virtualization solution that allows you to run multiple PC-based operating systems simultaneously on one workstation, providing a safety net to maintain compatibility with legacy applications while you migrate to a new operating system. It also saves reconfiguration time, so your support, development, and training......

2. Fig

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

3. Panamax

Panamax Panamax is a containerized app creator with an open-source app marketplace hosted in GitHub. Panamax provides a friendly interface for users of Docker, Fleet & CoreOS. With Panamax, you can easily create, share and deploy any no matter how complex it might be.......

4. Windows XP Mode

Windows XP Mode Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC, available ONLY on Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate, allow you to run multiple Windows environments, such as Windows XP Mode, from your Windows 7 desktop. Microsoft has added several new features to Windows Virtual PC to make it easy to use......

5. 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......

6. 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.......

7. Apache Mesos

Apache Mesos Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.......

8. Docker Swarm

Docker Swarm Docker Swarm is native clustering for Docker. It allows you create and access to a pool of Docker hosts using the full suite of Docker tools. Because Docker Swarm serves the standard Docker API, any tool that already communicates with a Docker daemon can use Swarm to transparently scale to......

9. 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......

10. 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......

11. AtomDeploy

AtomDeploy Cloud based service with a ton of applications to install in minutes in your vm.......

12. VMLite VirtualApps Studio

VMLite VirtualApps Studio VMLite VirtualApps Studio enables the delivery of pre-configured executable application containers – also termed software appliances - that do not require installation – they just “run”. In addition to zero installation, VMLite VirtualApps Studio provides a built-in feature to protect the intellectual properties of the deployed applications, as it can......

13. 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......

14. JavaQemu

JavaQemu JavaQemu is a Graphical User Interface Front End for QEMU , written in Java.JavaQemu works with JRE 1.7/1.8 and MS Windows OS.Since version 0.0.4a15, JavaQemu works with JRE 1.6 or Linux OS/Mac OS, too.JavaQemu works with Sun/Oracle JRE or OpenJDK JRE.......

15. CrunchBang Linux

CrunchBang Linux CrunchBang Linux is a Debian-based distribution offering a great blend of speed, style and substance. Using the nimble Openbox window and/or Xfce , it is highly customisable and provides a modern, full-featured GNU/Linux system without sacrificing performance.......