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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Parallels Desktop

May 13, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Parallels Desktop is virtualization software that allows users to run Windows, Linux, and other operating systems on their Mac.

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8 Useful Free and Open Source Virtualization Tools

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

A type 2 hypervisor, or hosted hypervisor, interacts with the underlying host machine hardware through the host machine’s operating system.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Citrix XenServer

March 8, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

XenServer (previously Citrix Hypervisor) is a hypervisor optimized for the Citrix platform. XenServer is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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VirtualBox – powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization software

March 1, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

VirtualBox is a family of virtual machine products targeting desktop computers, enterprise servers and embedded systems.

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QEMU – machine emulator and virtualizer

February 16, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. QEMU can be used in several different ways.

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Quickgui – virtual machine manager

February 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Quickgui is a graphical user interface for the Quickemu virtual machine manager.

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Cassowary – run Windows virtual machine on Linux

February 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Cassowary lets you run a Windows virtual machine and use Windows applications on Linux as if they were native applications.

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Quickemu – run Linux, macOS, and Windows virtual machines

February 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Quickemu is a wrapper for QEMU that automatically “does the right thing” when creating virtual machines.

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Boxes – view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems

February 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Boxes is a simple GNOME application to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

10 Useful Free and Open Source Container Managers

August 30, 2024 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

We focus on container managers, software which make it easy to find, run, build, share and deploy applications using open containers.

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