Best Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers in 2025

The world's fastest Graphics-Accelerated Desktop Virtualization solution with full DirectX 12.1 / Vulkan 3D API support!

Key Thincast Workstation features:

Virtual Desktop Streaming Multi-user Access Clients Thincast Virtual 3D

paid Free Trial €199.0 / One-off (2 VM instances with virtual 3D)

DCIM software reinvented. .

Key Hyperview features:

Asset Management Asset Tracking RFID Energy Management Capacity Management

Try for free paid Free Trial $600.0 / Annually (300 Assets)

VULTR Global Cloud Hosting - Brilliantly Fast SSD VPS Cloud Servers. 100% KVM Virtualization.

Key Vultr features:

Global Data Centers Scalability Competitive Pricing High Performance

Optimize your iOS CI/CD using Anka's macOS container-like Virtualization. Store VM state in the Anka Registry and run on any Apple hardware.

Key Veertu features:

Performance Ease of Use Integration Lightweight

Open Source

VMware Workstation is a multiple operating system handler to easily evaluate the any other type of new operating systems.

Key VMware Workstation features:

Cross-platform Compatibility Snapshot and Cloning Features Advanced Networking High Performance

+ Professional-grade Virtualization for PCs:.

Docker is an open platform that enables developers and system administrators to create distributed applications.

Key Docker features:

Portability Efficiency Isolation Scalability

Open Source

LXC by Linuxcontainers.org is a set of tools, templates, library and language bindings. It's pretty low level, very flexible and covers just about every containment feature supported by the upstream kernel.

Key LXC features:

Lightweight Resource Isolation Flexibility Security

Open Source

Learn more about IMB PowerVM, the virtualization solutions for AIX, Linux and IBM i clients.

Key IBM PowerVM features:

High Performance Flexibility and Scalability Security Features Reliability

Install Hyper-V on Windows 10.

Key Hyper-V features:

Integration with Windows Cost Live Migration Scalability

Proxmox is an open-source server virtualization management solution that offers the ability to manage virtual server technology with the Linux OpenVZ and KVM technology.

Key Proxmox VE features:

Open-Source Cost-Effective Comprehensive Feature Set Integrated Web-Based GUI

Learn how Oracle Virtual Machine (VM) server virtualization is designed to enable rapid enterprise application deployment and simplify lifecycle management.

Key Oracle VM Server features:

Comprehensive Management Tools Cost Efficiency Integrated with Oracle Products High Performance

Virtuozzo enables secure, high performance virtualized services with the lowest TCO for service providers and businesses.

Key Virtuozzo features:

Efficiency Scalability Cost-Effective Quick Deployment

Red Hat Virtualization is an open source, software-defined platform that virtualizes Linux and Microsoft Windows workloads.

Key RHEV features:

Enterprise-grade Support Integration with OpenShift Open Source Scalability