The Best 36 Virtual PC 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

  • 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

    Portable Scriptable
  • Parallels Desktop icon

    Parallels Desktop

    Parallels Desktop gives Mac users the ability to run Windows, Linux or any other operating system and their critical applications at the same time as Mac OS X on any Intel-powered Mac Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook or MacBook Pro.

    Commercial

  • VMware Fusion icon

    VMware Fusion

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

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) icon

    KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)

    KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • virt-manager icon

    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 icon

    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 icon

    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

  • Boot Camp icon

    Boot Camp

    Boot Camp is a utility by that assists users in installing Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, or GNU/Linux operating systems on Macs.

    Free Mac OS X

  • Apache Mesos icon

    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

  • Panamax icon

    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

  • OpenVZ icon

    OpenVZ

    OpenVZ is container-based virtualization for Linux.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • UCS Virtual Machine Manager icon

    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 icon

    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

    Support for Docker Hypervisor
  • Paragon Virtualization Manager icon

    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

  • JPC icon

    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