The Best 33 Microsoft Hyper-V Server Alternatives

  • VirtualBox icon

    VirtualBox

    VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Mac Solaris

  • VMware Workstation Pro icon

    VMware Workstation Pro

    VMware Workstation Pro is a commercial hypervisor that allows users to create and run virtual machines on one computer.

    Commercial

  • Proxmox Virtual Environment

    Proxmox Virtual Environment is an easy to use Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines.

    Freemium

  • Xen

    Xen.org, home of the Xen hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • 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.

    Commercial Windows Linux

  • virt-manager

    The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers).

    Free Open Source Linux

  • OpenStack

    OpenStack OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds.

    Free Open Source Web

  • 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.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • 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.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Citrix XenServer

    XenServer is a turnkey open source virtualization solution that provides out-of-the box virtualization and cloud computing.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Apache Mesos

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

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • oVirt

    oVirt is a virtualization management application.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • ASG-Remote Desktop

    ASG-Remote Desktop is the indispensable tool for administrative access to remote computers.

    Commercial Windows

  • 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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • UCS Virtual Machine Manager

    UCS Virtual Machine Manager (UVMM) is an easy-to-use and powerful administration tool for KVM.

    Free Open Source Linux Univention Corporate Server

  • 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.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • AQEMU

    aqemu is gui to qemu and kvm emulators, written in qt4. the program have user-friendly interface and allows to set up the majority of qemu and kvm …

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • SmartOS

    SmartOS is a hypervisor lean enough to run entirely in memory, powerful enough to run as much as you want to throw at it. Provisioning is blindingly fast, thanks to zones and ZFS file system creation.

    Commercial Self-Hosted

  • Fig

    Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux