86Box VS Multipass

86Box

86Box is a hypervisor and IBM PC system emulator that specializes in running old operating systems...

Multipass

Multipass provides a command line interface to launch, manage and generally fiddle about with instances of Linux.

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IDE

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IDE

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Cloud Computing

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Cloud Computing

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Email Marketing

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Email Marketing

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Group Chat & Notifications

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Group Chat & Notifications

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Multipass seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 86 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

86Box mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of 86Box yet. Tracking of 86Box recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Multipass mentions (86)

Packer Workflows with Jenkins
Multipass I love Multipass for quick Ubuntu instances spun up for testing or as a playground. Wish I would have known and used of it sooner. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago
VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework
If you just need Ubuntu then you can try "Multipass" from Canonical (https://multipass.run/). Works quite well on my M2 Air. I haven't tried using Linux GUI with it though as I need only terminal based VMs. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Simulate an Ubuntu-like VM inside macOS
I have been using Multipass [0] for a while and it works great to quickly spin up an Ubuntu environment on my MacBook. It supports cloud config in case you want a custom instance. It seems to be limited to running Ubuntu instances only (at least, I haven't figured out how to run other Linux instances) but if you want a quick clean Ubuntu VM I would recommend it. 0: https://multipass.run/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared
I would be cautious or even distrustful of using anything from Oracle. VirtualBox components come under three different licenses - GPLv2, personal use & evaluation license, and an enterprise license. Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] gives them enough leeway to change future licenses at will. If an exploit is discovered in your old VirtualBox and they've changed the license, you're out of luck. We've moved our... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
How does it compare to https://multipass.run/? - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago