VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.
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.
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.
the free version is available for noncommercial, personal and home use. we also encourage students and nonprofit organizations to benefit from this offering.
commercial organizations require paid licenses to use workstation player.
need a more advanced virtualization solution?check out workstation pro for windows or workstation pro for linux
Productivity Utilities Networking and Admin
easy-to-use virtualization operating-system
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
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
Seamlessly run your favorite Windows applications and devices, on any Intel-based Mac.
Commercial Mac OS X
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
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 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 is a freeware that will run your Linux LiveCD on Windows thanks to the excellent emulator called "Qemu".
Free Open Source Windows
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
The VMWare Disk Mount utility allows you to mount a VMDK file as a drive. VMWARE distributes a command line utility with no graphical interface (GUI). This is the graphical interface for the VMWare Disk Mount.
Free Windows
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
Here are the simple steps it takes to have your old PC up and running in your new PC, using VMLite: * Get an external hard drive that can hold all the data on your...
Commercial Windows
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