Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Parallels

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Apple Cloud Computing Game Managers Gaming Group Chat & Notifications IT Automation Office & Productivity Terminal Tools VPS Virtual Machine Management Virtualization Virtualization Platform

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Parallels are QEMU, virt-manager, and LXC. 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.

QEMU Landing Page
1

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
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 #Virtual Machine Management #Virtualization Platform 64 social mentions
LXC Landing Page
3

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
UTM Landing Page
4

UTM

Run virtual machines on iOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Apple 83 social mentions
oVirt Landing Page
5

oVirt

oVirt is a virtualization management application.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization Platform #Virtual Machine Management #Cloud Computing 3 social mentions
Proton Landing Page
6

Proton

Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Gaming #Group Chat & Notifications #Game Managers
xhypervisor Landing Page
7

xhypervisor

Xvisor® is an open-source type-1 hypervisor, which aims at providing a monolithic...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Virtualization Platform
Darling Landing Page
8

Darling

Run macOS applications on Linux
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Gaming #Cloud Computing 8 social mentions
Bottles Landing Page
9

Bottles

Easily manage wineprefix on Linux
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Gaming 227 social mentions
BootChamp Landing Page
10

BootChamp

BootChamp is a small utility for quickly booting into Windows on your Mac.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtualization #Virtual Machine Management
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
XCP-ng Landing Page
12

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