Guestbay AlternativesVirtualization Tools and other similar apps like Guestbay

Apps similar to Guestbay include VirtualBox, which is free and open source. Other options are QEMU, VMware Workstation Pro, virt-manager and UTM. You can choose from more than 10 Virtualization Tools like Guestbay for Mac, Linux, Windows, iPhone and iPad.

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  1. VirtualBox icon
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    Open source VirtualBox offers powerful x86/AMD64 virtualization available freely under GNU GPL v2. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris hosts. Supports a vast array of guest OS like Windows, Linux, Solaris. Portable, lightweight, ad-free, with dark mode.

    74 VirtualBox alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • BSD
    • Oracle Solaris
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  2. QEMU icon
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    QEMU, an open-source hypervisor, performs hardware virtualization, emulates CPUs using dynamic binary translation, and supports various architectures. It runs diverse unmodified guest OS, provides device models, and offers mixed translation modes for efficient execution.

    49 QEMU alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  3. VMware Workstation Pro Lets You Run Multiple Operating Systems as Virtual Machines (including Windows VMs) on a Single Windows or Linux PC. VMware Workstation Pro is the industry standard for running multiple operating systems as virtual machines (VMs) on a single Linux or...

    39 VMware Workstation Pro alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. virt-manager icon
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    Comprehensive desktop tool for managing virtual machines using libvirt, supporting KVM, Xen, and Linux Containers. It offers performance stats, resource allocation and virtual hardware configuration with VNC and SPICE clients for graphical consoles.

    39 virt-manager alternatives

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  5. UTM icon
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    An open-source QEMU-based host for creating, configuring, and running virtual machines on Macs, iOS, and visionOS. It supports full-system emulation across multiple processor architectures, plus hardware-assisted virtualization and macOS guests on ARM-based Macs.

    64 UTM alternatives

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • visionOS
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  6. Virtualization software for running Windows, Linux, and other OSes on Mac. Supports Windows 11 on Apple Silicon, resource adjustments, and seamless app access and file sharing between OS environments.

    61 Parallels Desktop alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  7. Boxes icon
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    A simple GNOME application to access virtual systems. It is based on a design from Jon McCann and Jakub Steiner.

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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  8. VMPal icon
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    Fast macOS, Windows and Linux virtual machines for Apple Silicon. VMPal downloads and installs each system for you, in minutes, in the VM's own window.

    40 VMPal alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
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  9. VMware Fusion icon
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    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...

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  10. 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...

    32 AQEMU alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. Multipass icon
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    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.

    67 Multipass alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
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