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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Xen

QEMU OpenStack XCP-ng virt-manager oVirt LXC Apache CloudStack OpenNebula AWS Elastic Beanstalk Vagrant

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Xen are QEMU, OpenStack, and XCP-ng. 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.
  1. 1
    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

  2. 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

  3. 3
    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

  4. 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

  5. 5
    oVirt is a virtualization management application.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtualization Platform #Virtual Machine Management #Cloud Computing 3 social mentions

  6. 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

  7. CloudStack is an open source cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #VPS #Cloud Computing #VPS Hosting 5 social mentions

  8. 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
    • $2500.0 / Annually ( Unlimited CPUs, Cores, VMs. Plus €200 ($250) per managed node )

    #Cloud Computing #Virtualization Platform #IT Automation 7 social mentions

  9. Quickly deploy and manage applications in the AWS cloud.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Hosting #Cloud Computing #Backend As A Service 37 social mentions

  10. 10
    Tool for building and maintaining portable virtual development environments.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtual Machine Management #IT Automation #Development Tools 4 social mentions

  11. An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Storage #Cloud Computing #Storage 45 social mentions

  12. 12
    Simple debugging tool for pods and images
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Developer Tools #Productivity #Cloud Computing 101 social mentions

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