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The best Operating System alternative to Parallels Desktop is VMware Workstation Player. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try VMware Workstation Player or v86. If that doesn't work for you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Parallels Desktop, but unfortunately only two of them are Operating Systems.

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    VMware Workstation Player

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

    38 VMware Workstation Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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