Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Workstation Player

Workstation Player

Download VMware Workstation Player for free today to run a single virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. Organizations use Workstation Player to deliver managed corporate desktops, while students and educators use it for learning and training.

Product categories

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

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Workstation Player are QEMU, virt-manager, 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
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
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
bochs Landing Page
4

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
OpenStack Landing Page
5

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
UTM Landing Page
6

UTM

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

oVirt

oVirt is a virtualization management application.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Virtualization Platform #Virtual Machine Management #Cloud Computing 3 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
#Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Virtualization Platform 86 social mentions
Darling Landing Page
9

Darling

Run macOS applications on Linux
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Group Chat & Notifications #Gaming #Cloud Computing 8 social mentions
xhypervisor Landing Page
10

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
Cassowary Landing Page
11

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
#Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Gaming 23 social mentions
Proton Landing Page
12

Proton

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