Alternatives to Parallels Desktop for Windows 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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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
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

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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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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

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MobaLiveCD

MobaLiveCD is a freeware that will run your Linux LiveCD on Windows thanks to the excellent emulator called "Qemu". MobaLiveCD allows you to test your LiveCD...

Free Open Source Windows
Portable Add a feature

22 Like
Fig

Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Hypervisor Virtualization Add a feature

5 Like
- 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
QEMU Manager

Qemu Manager is an easy to use management tool for the open-source QEMU emulator. It has a wealth of features for creating, managing...

Free Windows
Virtualization Add a feature

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- Discontinued The official website is no longer available. Last version, 7.0, released in April 2010, can be still downloaded from Download.com
Qemu Simple Boot

Qemu Simple Boot lets you to Boot ISO images without having to burn them to disc first , it is is a portable freeware virtualization tool

Free Windows
Portable Virtualization Add a feature

1 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."
Qtemu

QtEmu is a graphical user interface for Qtemu.

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

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- Discontinued The project is unmaintained and the last release was on November 12th, 2007.
Paragon Virtualization Manager

A powerful tool to help you easily migrate a Windows-based computer to a virtual environment (P2V) of a major virtualization software vendor, regardless of how or where...

Commercial Windows
Peer-To-Peer Virtualization Add a feature

8 Like
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
No features added Add a feature

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