Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Windows Sandbox

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The top open-source alternatives to Windows Sandbox are VirtualBox, QEMU, and UTM. 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
UTM Landing Page
3

UTM

Run virtual machines on iOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Office & Productivity 87 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 #IT Automation #Virtual Machine Management 65 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 #Virtualization Platform 11 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
XCP-ng Landing Page
7

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
Multipass Landing Page
8

Multipass

Multipass provides a command line interface to launch, manage and generally fiddle about with instances of Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications 88 social mentions
bochs Landing Page
9

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
OpenNebula Landing Page
10

OpenNebula

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
- $3000.0 / Annually ( Unlimited CPUs, Cores, VMs. Plus €200 ($250) per managed node )
#Open Source #Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure 10 social mentions
Vagrant Landing Page
11

Vagrant

Tool for building and maintaining portable virtual development environments.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Development #Development Tools #IT Automation 4 social mentions
Cassowary Landing Page
12

Cassowary

Run Windows Applications on Linux as if they are native. Use Linux applications to launch files located in Windows WM without needing to install applications on WM. With easy to use configuration GUI. TEST
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Software Marketplace #Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications 23 social mentions