The Best 32 Parallels Desktop 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

  • Wine icon

    Wine

    Wine is a free, open source application for running Windows software on operating systems that are normally not supported. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux Android Android Tablet BSD

  • 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

  • VMware Workstation Player icon

    VMware Workstation Player

    VMware Workstation Player builds on the industry leading foundation of Workstation Pro, and delivers a streamlined user interface for creating and running operating systems and applications in a virtual machine.

    Free Personal Windows Linux

  • QEMU icon

    QEMU

    QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • VMware Fusion

    Seamlessly run your favorite Windows applications and devices, on any Intel-based Mac.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • CrossOver

    CrossOver allows you to install many popular Windows applications and games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux computer.

    Commercial

  • 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

  • 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

  • MobaLiveCD

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

    Free Open Source Windows

  • ASG-Remote Desktop

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

    Commercial Windows

  • Porting Kit

    Install Windows Games in Mac OS X natively and easily and for free with Wineskin technology.

    Free Mac OS X

  • 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

  • Paragon Virtualization Manager

    A powerful tool to help you easily migrate a Windows-based computer to a virtual environment (P2V) of a major virtualization software vendor, regardless of how or where the computer is being backed up.

    Commercial Windows

  • Boxes

    A simple GNOME 3 application to access remote or virtual systems. It is based on a design from Jon McCann and Jakub Steiner.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • 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

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • 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

  • Fig

    Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • VMLite XP Mode

    VMLite XP Mode offers similar functions as Microsoft Windows XP Mode, but doesn't require hardware virtualization. It allows you to run Windows XP at the same time from your desktop running on a different host operating system.

    Commercial Windows