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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Hyper-V

LXC QEMU oVirt Vagrant XCP-ng virt-manager UTM Amazon EC2 OpenNebula OpenStack

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Hyper-V are LXC, QEMU, and oVirt. 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.
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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

    #Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 33 social mentions

  2. 2
    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

  3. 3
    oVirt is a virtualization management application.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtualization Platform #Virtual Machine Management #Cloud Computing 3 social mentions

  4. Tool for building and maintaining portable virtual development environments.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtual Machine Management #IT Automation #Development Tools 4 social mentions

  5. 5
    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

  6. 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

  7. 7

    UTM

    Run virtual machines on iOS
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Apple 83 social mentions

  8. 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 62 social mentions

  9. OpenNebula is an Open Source Cloud & Edge Computing Platform to build & manage Enterprise Clouds. OpenNebula provides unified management of IT infrastructure, avoiding vendor lock-in & reducing complexity, resource consumption, & operational costs 🚀
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • $2500.0 / Annually ( Unlimited CPUs, Cores, VMs. Plus €200 ($250) per managed node )

    #Cloud Computing #Virtualization Platform #IT Automation 7 social mentions

  10. 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 #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 2 social mentions

  11. Xvisor® is an open-source type-1 hypervisor, which aims at providing a monolithic...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Virtualization Platform

  12. 12

    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

    #Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 10 social mentions

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