Alternatives to Parallels Desktop for all platforms with any license

VirtualBox

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...
- Unlike Parallels, Virtualbox is free, open source and runs natively on Windows, Mac and Linux. What's not to like? JohnFastman • Dec 2016 • 10 agrees and 3 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Solaris
Virtualization Compatibility with VMWare files Multiple languages Open VMDK files Add a feature

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Wine

Wine is a free, open source application for running Windows software on operating systems that are normally not supported. With Wine, you can install and run these...

Free Open Source Mac Linux Android Android Tablet BSD
Run Windows software Add a feature

510 Like
VMware Workstation Pro

VMware Workstation Pro is a commercial hypervisor that allows users to create and run virtual machines on one computer.

Commercial $ $ $ Windows Linux
Support for Android Things Bundled with macOS Multiple Languages Virtualization Add a feature

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QEMU

QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization. QEMU is a hosted virtual machine...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
Portable Scriptable Virtualization Add a feature

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VMware Workstation Player

VMware Workstation Player builds on the industry leading foundation of Workstation Pro, and delivers a streamlined user interface for creating and running operating...

Free Personal Windows Linux
Virtualization Add a feature

220 Like
virt-manager

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux...

Free Open Source Linux BSD Gentoo Linux Fedora Debian ... OpenBSD
Live migration Virtualization Add a feature

38 Like
VMware Fusion

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...

Commercial Mac
Virtualization Add a feature

101 Like
Proton

Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on...

Free Open Source Mac Linux Steam
No features added Add a feature

16 Like
CrossOver

CrossOver allows you to install many popular Windows applications and games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux computer.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Linux
No features added Add a feature

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Portable Virtualbox

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...

Free Open Source Windows
GNU/linux-libre Portable Virtualization Add a feature

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Boxes

A simple GNOME 3 application to access remote or virtual systems. It is based on a design from Jon McCann and Jakub Steiner.

Free Open Source Linux
Virtualization Add a feature

9 Like
Wineskin Winery

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...

Free Open Source Mac Wine
Run Windows software Add a feature

17 Like
bochs

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...

Free Open Source Windows Linux AmigaOS MorphOS
Android Sync X86-emulation Add a feature

12 Like
Porting Kit

Install Windows Games in Mac OS X natively and easily and for free with Wineskin technology.

Free Mac
Run Windows software Add a feature

10 Like
AQEMU

AQEMU is GUI to QEMU and KVM emulators, written in Qt4. The program have user-friendly interface and allows to set up the majority of QEMU and KVM …

Free Open Source Linux BSD
Virtualization Add a feature

7 Like

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How to stop Parallels from asking you to register

about Parallels Desktop · Sep 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 2 Helpful Report as spam

I get a popup from Parallels Desktop asking me to register every time I reboot my computer, and it's annoying as hell. Here's how to disable it. http://forum.parallels.com/showpost.php?p=441726&postcount=5

Comment by ShiroiSame

about Parallels Desktop · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

Parallels 5 completely freeze my MacBook! I'll move to vmware...

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about Parallels Desktop · Sep 2013 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Make sure you have enough RAM before do virtualization!

Comment by docandreore

about Parallels Desktop · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Worked great for me since version 4. Latest version 6 is even faster and much better. I never tried Fusion, so I have no idea if it is any better than Parallels, but I did try VirtualBox and I could not even install Windows XP on that. Parallels all the way for me.

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VirtualBox

Wine

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virt-manager

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bochs

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How to stop Parallels from asking you to register

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