Alternatives to Parallels Desktop for Mac 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

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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 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

99 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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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
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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
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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

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Fig

Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Hypervisor Virtualization Add a feature

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- Discontinued "Fig has been replaced by Docker Compose, and is now deprecated. The new documentation is on the Docker website."
JPC

PC is the fast Java™ x86 PC emulator. Features: - 100% pure Java - Runs as an applet - Modular and customisable - Snapshot capability - Integrated...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Web
Portable Virtualization Add a feature

7 Like
Karton

Run Linux programs on macOS, a different Linux distro, or a different architecture.

Free Open Source Mac Linux
No features added Add a feature

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WinOnX

Run your Windows applications on OSX without the need of buying a Windows license. Well, you even do not need to install Windows. Just download WinOnX and you are...

Commercial Mac
Run Windows software Add a feature

3 Like
JavaQemu

JavaQemu is a Graphical User Interface Front End for QEMU, written in Java.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Virtualization Add a feature

3 Like
- Discontinued Website states: "This project is no longer active because I stopped playing with Java since a long time."
PCE

PCE is a collection of microcomputer emulators. At the moment it contains three emulators: PCE/atarist is an Atari ST emulator. It emulates the various ST and Mega ST...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
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Turbo.net for Mac

Turbo.net for Mac runs PC apps on your Mac without having to install a Virtual Machine. Unlike other Mac VM solutions, Turbo.net is cloud-based. There is no need to...

Commercial Mac Windows Web Chrome OS Android Tablet ... iPad
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