a new lightweight desktop environment tailored for safely running applications in isolation.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
OpenVZ Alternatives
Apps similar to OpenVZ include VirtualBox, which is free and open source. Other options are Docker, QEMU, VMware Workstation Pro and KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine). You're spoiled for choice with Virtualization Tools like OpenVZ: we list more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, self-hosting and the web.
Alternatives list
- 63 Windows Sandbox alternatives
14 Linux Containers (LXC) alternativesContainers which offer an environment as close as possible as the one you'd get from a VM but without the overhead that comes with running a separate kernel and simulating all the hardware.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
36 Xen alternativesXen.org, home of the Xen hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization. It is a native (bare-metal) hypervisor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
United States
SmartOS is a hypervisor lean enough to run entirely in memory, powerful enough to run as much as you want to throw at it. Provisioning is blindingly fast, thanks to zones and ZFS file system creation.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- United States
45 VMware vSphere Hypervisor alternativesVMware vSphere Hypervisor ( based on ESXi ) is a free bare-metal hypervisor that virtualizes servers so you can consolidate your applications on less hardware.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- NVIDIA vGPU
- AMD MxGPU
- United States
Flint is a modern, self-contained KVM management tool built for developers, sysadmins, and home labs who want zero bloat and maximum efficiency. It was built in a few hours out of a sudden urge for something better.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- Linux
67 Lima alternativesLima launches Linux virtual machines on macOS, with automatic file sharing, port forwarding, and containerd.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
40 Portable Virtualbox alternativesPortable-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.
Platforms
- Windows
Norway
66 Multipass alternativesMultipass 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Snapcraft
United Kingdom
An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
Straightforward and lightweight, but featureful. MicroClouds serve compute near consumers, wherever they may be.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- United Kingdom
