Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to VMware Workstation

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

VirtualBox Landing Page
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VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Office & Productivity 32 social mentions
QEMU Landing Page
2

QEMU

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

virt-manager

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #IT Automation #Virtual Machine Management 65 social mentions
UTM Landing Page
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UTM

Run virtual machines on iOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #IT Automation #Virtual Machine Management 88 social mentions
Xen Landing Page
5

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 #Virtual Machine Management #Office & Productivity 12 social mentions
OpenStack Landing Page
6

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
#VPS #Cloud Hosting #Cloud Computing 2 social mentions
oVirt Landing Page
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oVirt

oVirt is a virtualization management application.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#VPS #Cloud Computing #IT Automation 3 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
#Virtual Machine Platforms & Containers #Virtual Machine Management #Virtualization 1 social mentions
bochs Landing Page
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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 #Virtual Machine Management #Office & Productivity 6 social mentions
LXC Landing Page
10

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
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Developer Tools 39 social mentions
Proton Landing Page
11

Proton

Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Gaming
Darling Landing Page
12

Darling

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