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Hypervisors

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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Hypervisors

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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Hypervisors

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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Portainer

Cloudmin – manage virtual systems

August 18, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

Cloudmin provides a web interface for managing virtual systems; its GPL edition is limited to a single Xen or KVM host system.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

Incus – system, application container and virtual machine manager

August 15, 2024 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Incus manages system containers, OCI application containers and virtual machines through a unified command-line and REST API workflow.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

containerd – industry-standard container runtime

August 11, 2024 Steve Emms Internet

containerd is an industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability.

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Synology Container Manager

Synology Container Manager for Beginners

December 18, 2023 Steve Emms Hardware, NAS, Reviews, Software

Synology Container Manager is a lightweight virtualization application which lets you run thousands of containers.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

Docker – software to create, deploy, and run applications by using containers

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Docker is a set of platform as a service (PaaS) products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

LXC – userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

LXC containers are often considered as something in the middle between a chroot and a full fledged virtual machine.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

Apptainer – open source container platform

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Apptainer is a container platform optimized for compute focused enterprise and HPC workloads.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

Kata Containers – secure container runtime with lightweight virtual machines

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Kata Containers runtime uses a hypervisor to provide isolation when spawning containers. It creates lightweight virtual machines.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

OpenVZ – container-based virtualization

November 4, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

OpenVZ is an open source operating system-level virtualization technology based on the Linux kernel and operating system.

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Hypervisors

Proxmox VE – server virtualization management platform

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Proxmox VE provides KVM and LXC virtualization, cluster management, software-defined networking, backups and integrated Ceph storage.

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Hypervisors

Xen – bare-metal virtualization hypervisor

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Xen is a bare-metal hypervisor supporting isolated virtual machines, PVH guests, device passthrough, live migration and security controls.

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Hypervisors

KVM – kernel-based virtualization for Linux

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

KVM provides Linux kernel virtualization using hardware acceleration, with QEMU integration, virtio devices, migration and passthrough.

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Hypervisors

XCP-ng – enterprise virtualization platform

October 15, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

XCP-ng provides Xen-based server virtualization with live migration, storage pools, XO Lite management and Xen Orchestra integration.

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Cloud

oVirt – enterprise virtualization management platform

September 9, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

oVirt manages KVM virtual machines and clusters through a web console, with live migration, storage management, templates and permissions.

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Cloud

loudStack – infrastructure as a service cloud platform

September 9, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

CloudStack manages IaaS clouds with virtual machines, network services, storage, multi-tenancy, resource accounting, and automation.

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OpenNebula – private and hybrid cloud management platform

September 9, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

OpenNebula manages private and hybrid clouds with virtual machines, multi-tenancy, networking, storage, orchestration, and backups.

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Cloud

OpenQRM – data centre and cloud management platform

September 9, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

OpenQRM manages physical servers, virtual machines and storage infrastructure with automated provisioning and extensible integrations.

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