Boxes Alternatives

Apps similar to Boxes include VirtualBox, which is free and open source. Other options are WinBoat, VMware Workstation Pro, virt-manager and UTM. Virtualization Tools like Boxes are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Mac, Linux, Windows, self-hosting and iPad.

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  1. AQEMU icon
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    AQEMU VM Manager is an open-source (GPL-2.0) Qt GUI for QEMU, actively developed by Chronic Engineering. It bundles QEMU 11 and ships native x64 and ARM64 builds for Windows 11, plus Linux builds. A guided VM wizard includes 195 guest OS profiles across 29 architectures, from...

    31 AQEMU alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Lima icon
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    Lima launches Linux virtual machines on macOS, with automatic file sharing, port forwarding, and containerd.

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    • Mac
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  3. Multipass icon
     9 likes

    Multipass is a lightweight VM manager for Linux, Windows and macOS. It's designed for developers who want a fresh Ubuntu environment with a single command. It uses KVM on Linux, Hyper-V on Windows and HyperKit on macOS to run the VM with minimal overhead.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
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  4. lume VM icon
     3 likes

    A lightweight CLI and local API server to create, run and manage macOS and Linux virtual machines (VMs) natively on Apple Silicon.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Python
    • Apple Swift
    • Homebrew
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  5. MacMulator icon
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    MacMulator is the computer emulator for your Mac! It engages the power of Qemu, together with a nice, easy to use UI, to let you create any kind of Virtual Machines in a few clicks. Whatever OS you need to run on your Mac, MacMulator is the tool for you!.

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    • Mac
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  6. QEMU Manager icon
     8 likes

    Qemu Manager is an easy to use management tool for the open-source QEMU emulator. It has a wealth of features for creating, managing and running multiple virtual machines.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. VirtualBuddy icon
     2 likes

    VirtualBuddy can virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon, with the goal of offering features that are useful to developers who need to test their apps on multiple versions of macOS, especially betas.

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    • Mac
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  8. Boot Camp icon
     18 likes

    Boot Camp is a utility by that assists users in installing Windows 10 on Macs. Boot Camp guides users through non-destructive re-partitioning (including resizing of an existing APFS partition, if necessary) of their hard disk drive and automatically downloads Apple-provided...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. Karton VM icon
     2 likes

    A Libvirt-based Virtual Machine Manager for KDE.

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
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  10. QtEmu icon
     7 likes

    QtEmu is a graphical user interface for QEMU.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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