Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Parallels Desktop

Parallels Desktop

Parallels Desktop 10 is a hardware and operating system virtualization program designed for the users of Mac Operating System to enjoy the most of the versions of Windows operating systems in their machine. subtitle

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Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Parallels Desktop are QEMU, Veertu, and Xen. 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
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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
Veertu Landing Page
2

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
3

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
virt-manager Landing Page
4

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
UTM Landing Page
5

UTM

Run virtual machines on iOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Apple 83 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
Darling Landing Page
7

Darling

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

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 #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 2 social mentions
LXC Landing Page
9

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
bochs Landing Page
10

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
Amazon EC2 Landing Page
11

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 62 social mentions
Bottles Landing Page
12

Bottles

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