Free Boot Camp Alternatives
The best free alternative to Boot Camp is VirtualBox, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Boot Camp and 14 is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Boot Camp are QEMU, KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), VMware Fusion and Boxes.
- 61 VirtualBox alternatives
- Virtualization Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Solaris
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as...
- - VirtualBox is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Boot Camp.
- - VirtualBox is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Boot Camp.
VirtualBox Features
- Container Virtualization
- Lightweight
- Dark Mode
- Ad-free
- Portable
- 46 QEMU alternatives
- Virtualization Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization.
QEMU Features
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
- Portable
- Command line interface
- Support for scripting
- Container Virtualization
- 44 KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) alternatives
- Virtualization Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Android
KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.
- - KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the most popular Android alternative to Boot Camp.
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) Features
- Portable
- Command line interface
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
- Container Virtualization
- 40 VMware Fusion alternatives
- Virtualization Tool
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Mac
Seamlessly run your favorite Windows applications and devices, on any Intel-based Mac. Built from the ground up for the Mac, VMware Fusion is the easiest way to switch to Mac—letting you bring all of your Windows applications with you, making the most of your Windows software...
- 22 Boxes alternatives
- Virtualization Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- BSD
- Flathub
- GNOME
A simple GNOME application to access virtual systems. It is based on a design from Jon McCann and Jakub Steiner.
Boxes Features
- Privacy focused
- Container Virtualization
- Lightweight
- Portable
- Command line interface
- 52 UTM alternatives
- Virtualization Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
UTM is a full featured system emulator and virtual machine host for iOS and macOS. It is based off of QEMU. In short, it allows you to run Windows, Linux, and more on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
- - UTM is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Boot Camp.
UTM Features
- Ad-free
- Container Virtualization
- 40 Portable Virtualbox alternatives
- Virtualization Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
Portable-VirtualBox is a free and open source software tool that lets you run any operating system from a usb stick without separate installation. It unpacks and adjusts the paths and configuration of VirtualBox so it will run portably.
Portable Virtualbox Features
- Command line interface
- Container Virtualization
- Lightweight
- Portable
DiscontinuedDiscontinued.
- 23 MobaLiveCD alternatives
- Virtualization Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
MobaLiveCD is a freeware that will run your Linux LiveCD on Windows thanks to the excellent emulator called "Qemu".
MobaLiveCD Features
- Portable
- 24 Qemu Simple Boot alternatives
- Virtualization Tool
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
Qemu Simple Boot lets you to Boot ISO images without having to burn them to disc first , it is is a portable freeware virtualization tool
Qemu Simple Boot Features
- Portable
- 39 Bochs alternatives
- Virtualization Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- AmigaOS
- MorphOS
Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom BIOS. Currently, Bochs can be compiled to emulate a 386, 486...
Bochs Features
- 29 Wineskin Winery alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Wine
Wineskin is a tool used to make ports of Windows software to Mac OS X. The ports are in the form of normal Mac application bundle wrappers. It works like a wrapper around the Windows software, and you can share just the wrappers if you choose.
Wineskin Winery Features
DiscontinuedHasn't been updated in over 6 years and doesn't work on most modern versions of macOS: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wineskin/, https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer#wineskin
- 2 Valor & Valor Lite alternatives
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Self-Hosted
This is a script that will install a DSDT file to make your audio drivers work for your MacBook Pro Early 2009-2011 in EFI/GPT mode (Bootcamp drivers may vary). This allows modern compatibility with EFI dual booting operating systems.
- - Valor & Valor Lite is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Boot Camp.