Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to VirtualBox

The top open-source alternatives to VirtualBox are QEMU, virt-manager, 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.

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
oVirt Landing Page
3

oVirt

oVirt is a virtualization management application.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization Platform #Virtual Machine Management #Cloud Computing 3 social mentions
Xen Landing Page
4

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
Vagrant Landing Page
5

Vagrant

Tool for building and maintaining portable virtual development environments.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtual Machine Management #IT Automation #Development Tools 4 social mentions
LXC Landing Page
6

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
7

UTM

Run virtual machines on iOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Apple 83 social mentions
Veertu Landing Page
8

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
OpenStack Landing Page
9

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
XCP-ng Landing Page
10

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
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
xhypervisor Landing Page
12

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