VMware Server Alternatives for Linux

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VMware Workstation

Commercial by VMware |
Windows, Linux

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Discover the true power and flexibility of your desktop or laptop computer with VMware Workstation. Reduce hardware costs by 50% or more by running multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single...

Development, Network & Admin, OS & Utilities operating-system, virtualization, vmware
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VMware Player

Free by VMware |
Windows, Linux

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Run and EDIT (new in version 3.0) virtual machines on your Windows or Linux PC with VMware Player. With this free desktop virtualization software application you can operate any virtual machine created by...

Development, Network & Admin, OS & Utilities operating-system, virtualization, easy-to-use
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VirtualBox OSE

Open Source by Oracle (Sun Microsystems) |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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The VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE) is the one that has been released under the GPL and comes with complete source code. It is functionally equivalent to the full VirtualBox package, except for a few...

Development, Network & Admin, OS & Utilities operating-system, virtualization, virtual-machine
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QEMU

Open Source by Fabrice Bellard |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. It supports most common virtualization architecture pairings. With the portable QEMU-Manager (1) and with KVM you can start without...

Development, Network & Admin, OS & Utilities portable Download for WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 from http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=640. No Admin-rights for QEMU-Manager necessary, but admin-rights are required for the old KQEMU Accelerator., operating-system, virtualization
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VMWare ESXi

Free by VMware |
Windows, Linux

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Optimize your infrastructure with VMware virtualization. From data center to lab, VMware virtualization consolidates servers, optimizes the software lifecycle, and provides business continuity via virtual...

Development, Network & Admin virtualization, vmware, virtual-machine, virtual-pc
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Xen

Open Source by Citrix |
Linux

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Xen.org, home of the Xen hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization.

Development, Network & Admin community, virtualization, xen
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server

Commercial by Microsoft |
Windows, Linux

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Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2 is a stand-alone product that provides a reliable and optimized virtualization solution enabling organizations to improve server utilization and reduce costs. With the...

Development, Network & Admin virtualization, vmware, virtual-machine, virtual-pc
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phpVirtualbox

Free by Ian Moore |
Mac, Windows, Linux

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An open source, AJAX implementation of the VirtualBox user interface written in PHP. As a modern web interface, it allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. Much of its verbage and some of...

Development, Network & Admin php, virtualization, web-application
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Citrix XenServer

Free by Citrix |
Windows, Linux

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Citrix XenServer is a bare-metal hypervisor. Although not as mature as VMware ESXi it still offers some good features and is enterprise scalable with additional (commercially licensed) features.

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Parallels Workstation

Commercial by Parallels |
Windows, Linux

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+ Professional-grade Virtualization for PCs: Simultaneously run a wide variety of Windows versions, Linux distributions, web stacks, database configurations, and multi-tier cloud environments on a single PC...

Development, Network & Admin, OS & Utilities operating-system, virtualization, virtual-machine
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