Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Boxes

Boxes

GNOME Boxes is an application of the GNOME Desktop Environment, used to access remote or virtual systems.

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The top open-source alternatives to Boxes are VirtualBox, virt-manager, and QEMU. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

VirtualBox Landing Page
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VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Office & Productivity 32 social mentions
virt-manager Landing Page
2

virt-manager

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #IT Automation #Virtual Machine Management 65 social mentions
QEMU Landing Page
3

QEMU

QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Office & Productivity 3 social mentions
UTM Landing Page
4

UTM

Run virtual machines on iOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #IT Automation #Virtual Machine Management 88 social mentions
oVirt Landing Page
5

oVirt

oVirt is a virtualization management application.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#VPS #Cloud Computing #IT Automation 3 social mentions
Xen Landing Page
6

Xen

Xen Project: Open Source Hypervisor, High Performance Clouds, Free Software, Open Source Virtualization, Open Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Mobile Virtualization, Embedded Virtualization.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Office & Productivity 12 social mentions
Vagrant Landing Page
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Vagrant

Tool for building and maintaining portable virtual development environments.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #Development Tools #IT Automation 4 social mentions
bochs Landing Page
8

bochs

Bochs IA-32 Emulator provides a virtual PC that can run operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and BSD.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Office & Productivity 6 social mentions
Multipass Landing Page
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Multipass

Multipass provides a command line interface to launch, manage and generally fiddle about with instances of Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Virtualization Platform 88 social mentions
Proton Landing Page
10

Proton

Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Gaming
LXC Landing Page
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LXC

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.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Developer Tools 39 social mentions
Xen Orchestra Landing Page
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Xen Orchestra

A complete web UI for controlling a XenServer or Xen infrastructure.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #IT Automation #Virtual Machine Management 3 social mentions