The Best 26 VMware vSphere Hypervisor Alternatives

  • 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

  • Proxmox Virtual Environment icon

    Proxmox Virtual Environment

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

    Freemium

  • Xen icon

    Xen

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

    Free Open Source Linux

  • OpenStack icon

    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

  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server icon

    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.

    Commercial Windows 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

  • Citrix XenServer icon

    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

  • oVirt icon

    oVirt

    oVirt is a virtualization management application.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • bochs icon

    bochs

    Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux AmigaOS MorphOS

    Android Sync X86 emulation
  • 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

  • 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

  • SmartOS icon

    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

  • CoreCluster icon

    CoreCluster

    CoreCluster is modular cloud computing platform dedicated for creating private IaaS clouds.

    Free Open Source Linux Web

  • PetiteCloud icon

    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).

    Free Open Source BSD

  • Parallels Workstation icon

    Parallels Workstation

    + Professional-grade Virtualization for PCs: Simultaneously run a wide variety of Windows versions, Linux distributions, web stacks, database configurations, and...

    Commercial Windows Linux

  • QEMU Manager icon

    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...

    Free Windows