QEMU Manager has been discontinued. Similar apps include VirtualBox, which is free and open source. Other options are WinBoat, QEMU, VMware Workstation Pro and KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine). You're spoiled for choice with Virtualization Tools like QEMU Manager: we list more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, the web and self-hosting.
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 to Mac—letting you bring all of your Windows applications with you, making the most of your Windows software...
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a new lightweight desktop environment tailored for safely running applications in isolation.
Quickly create and run highly optimised desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows; with just two commands. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu will figure out the best way to do it for you. For example:
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Xen.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.
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AQEMU VM Manager is an open-source (GPL-2.0) Qt GUI for QEMU, actively developed by Chronic Engineering. It bundles QEMU 11 and ships native x64 and ARM64 builds for Windows 11, plus Linux builds. A guided VM wizard includes 195 guest OS profiles across 29 architectures, from...
VMware vSphere Hypervisor ( based on ESXi ) is a free bare-metal hypervisor that virtualizes servers so you can consolidate your applications on less hardware.
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Microsoft Hyper-V Server is a free product that delivers enterprise-class virtualization for your datacenter and hybrid cloud.
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Lima launches Linux virtual machines on macOS, with automatic file sharing, port forwarding, and containerd.
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 the paths and configuration of VirtualBox so it will run portably.
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Multipass 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.
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MobaLiveCD is a freeware that will run your Linux LiveCD on Windows thanks to the excellent emulator called "Qemu".
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A lightweight CLI and local API server to create, run and manage macOS and Linux virtual machines (VMs) natively on Apple Silicon.
