Best Alternatives of VirtualBox for Windows

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VirtualBox

I’m sure you can appreciate the irony in the name of this program, but this is also a very accurate description of what Portable-VirtualBox is. In essence, this free and open source program is VirtualBox and does not need to be installed, making it useful even if it is contained on a USB drive. Portable-VirtualBox works by virtually downloading and installing VirtualBox on the fly, allowing you to run a virtual machine on a host that did not have VB in the first place or does not allow software installation. It doesn’t matter where your virtual machines are stored either, as Portable-VirtualBox is capable of running them no matter where you are.

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VMware Workstation

Workstation Player is also capable of running restricted virtual machines, that is, machines created with VMware Workstation Pro. This makes it the ideal solution to deploy in an educational environment without incurring exorbitant hardware and software expenses. Workstation Player virtual machines are portable too, so you can transfer the entire VM file to a flash drive or other storage medium and use it on a completely different machine as long as you can run the Player itself.

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Workstation Player

Workstation Player is also capable of running restricted virtual machines, that is, machines created with VMware Workstation Pro. This makes it the ideal solution to deploy in an educational environment without incurring exorbitant hardware and software expenses. Workstation Player virtual machines are portable too, so you can transfer the entire VM file to a flash drive or other storage medium and use it on a completely different machine as long as you can run the Player itself.

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VMware Fusion

No discussion of virtualization software can be complete without mentioning Parallels Desktop. Parallels Desktop is a direct competitor to VMware Fusion and Fusion Pro, and even offers two versions: one for personal use and one for business. Parallels Desktop does everything VMware Fusion does with a few subtle differences. It also allows Mac and Windows to run simultaneously and even comes with a “Coherence” mode which is the exact Unity equivalent of Fusion. However, Parallels is not restricted to Windows and can also run Linux and Chrome OS on your Mac. It is also Windows 10 ready, supports Cortana integration, and can even turn your Windows Boot Camp installation into a virtual machine for your convenience. .

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QEMU

Short for Quick Emulator, QEMU is another free and open source virtualization solution for a variety of operating systems. While it is immensely powerful, it is also one of the least user friendly out there. QEMU offers a host of advanced capabilities and features that others of the same genre fall short of, including a wide variety of architectures in place of the traditional x86 used by traditional PCs. It can also be bundled with KVM to run virtual machines as fast as they would in a native hardware environment.

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Parallels

No discussion of virtualization software can be complete without mentioning Parallels Desktop. Parallels Desktop is a direct competitor to VMware Fusion and Fusion Pro, and even offers two versions: one for personal use and one for business. Parallels Desktop does everything VMware Fusion does with a few subtle differences. It also allows Mac and Windows to run simultaneously and even comes with a “Coherence” mode which is the exact Unity equivalent of Fusion. However, Parallels is not restricted to Windows and can also run Linux and Chrome OS on your Mac. It is also Windows 10 ready, supports Cortana integration, and can even turn your Windows Boot Camp installation into a virtual machine for your convenience. .

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Portable Virtualbox

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