Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Citrix Hypervisor

Citrix Hypervisor

Optimized for server virtualization infrastructures, Citrix Hypervisor is a leading virtualization management platform that enables server consolidation and provides industry-leading scalability and performance under load.

The top open-source alternatives to Citrix Hypervisor are OpenStack, QEMU, and XCP-ng. 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.

OpenStack Landing Page
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OpenStack

OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #VPS #Cloud Infrastructure 2 social mentions
QEMU Landing Page
2

QEMU

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

XCP-ng

A fully open source and community backed alternative, with all current commercial features enabled...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Virtualization Platform 37 social mentions
oVirt Landing Page
4

oVirt

oVirt is a virtualization management application.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization Platform #Virtual Machine Management #Cloud Computing 3 social mentions
Veertu Landing Page
5

Veertu

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.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization #Virtual Machine Management #Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers 1 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 #Virtualization #Virtual Machine Management 10 social mentions
Amazon EC2 Landing Page
7

Amazon EC2

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 63 social mentions
DC/OS Landing Page
8

DC/OS

DC/OS is an open source platform to run containers and Big Data workloads in production.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Cloud Computing 1 social mentions
virt-manager Landing Page
9

virt-manager

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Virtualization Platform 64 social mentions
Xen Orchestra Landing Page
10

Xen Orchestra

A complete web UI for controlling a XenServer or Xen infrastructure.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtualization Platform #IT Automation 3 social mentions
bochs Landing Page
11

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 #Virtualization #Virtual Machine Management 6 social mentions
Multipass Landing Page
12

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 86 social mentions