Top 15 Xen Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Xen.org, home of the Xen hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization. It is a native (bare-metal) hypervisor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.

1. clearVM

clearVM clearVM, formerly Witsbits, enables you to set up your servers with virtualization and deploy virtual machines faster than ever before. It’s a complete virtualization solution with a self-upgrading hypervisor and cloud-based centralized management, reducing time spent on maintenance to a fraction of what other solutions require. The self-configuring hypervisor comes......

2. Citrix XenServer

Citrix XenServer XenServer is a turnkey open source virtualization solution that provides out-of-the box virtualization and cloud computing. XenServer includes the Xen Hypervisor, the enterprise ready XAPI toolstack and integrations for cloud, storage and networking solutions.......

3. 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......

4. 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......

5. VM manager

VM manager Commercial Linux-based VPS management control panel with full support for KVM and OpenVZ virtualizations. It presents perfect tools for creating virtual machines, providing VPS hosting services and building cloud infrastructure.Free version of VMmanager comes without any features or time limitations but has following resource limits: 2 virtual machines, 5 nodes,......

6. HCnix

HCnix HCnix is an independent control panel, allowing Linux web hosts to manage multiple Web, Mail, Database and DNS servers in a cluster through a central yet powerful control. A strong Virtualization component sets HCnix truly apart from its competition while at the same time a load of third party applications......

7. 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.......

8. Fig

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

9. TestChameleon

TestChameleon Virtualize any Desktop environment out therewith TestChameleon developed by Testbirds GmbH......

10. oVirt

oVirt oVirt is a virtualization management application. That means that you can use the oVirt management interface ( the oVirt engine) to manage hardware nodes, storage and network resources, and to deploy and monitor virtual machines running in your data center.If you are familiar with VMware products, it is conceptually similar......

11. 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.......

12. PetiteCloud

PetiteCloud PetiteCloud is a HyperVisor frontend for BSD. It has the following features: Support for bhyve (including linux support) and QEMU (software emulation only until the FreeBSD port of kqemu is fixed). Any x86 OS as a guest (FreeBSD and Linux via bhyve or QEMU; all others via QEMU only) and......

13. OpenNode

OpenNode OpenNode is a open source server virtualization solution providing easy to use bare-metal ISO installer. It's based on CentOS and supports both OpenVZ container-based virtualization and emerging KVM full virtualization technology on the same host.......

14. QEMU Manager

QEMU Manager Qemu Manager is an easy to use management tool for the open-source QEMU emulator. It has a wealth of features for creating, managing and running multiple virtual machines. It also allows you to run virtual machines within the program itself, giving you quick access to all your running......

15. Cloudmin

Cloudmin It is a UI built on top of Webmin for managing virtual systems, such as Xen, KVM and OpenVZ instances. Using Cloudmin you can create, destroy, resize, startup, shutdown and restrict multiple instances using different virtualization technologies from a single interface. It also has a full command line API that......