virt-manager Alternatives

Apps similar to virt-manager include VirtualBox, which is free and open source. Other options are WinBoat, UTM, Parallels Desktop and VMware Workstation Player. Virtualization Tools like virt-manager are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, self-hosting and the web.

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  1. AQEMU icon
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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...

    31 AQEMU alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Quickemu icon
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    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:

    10 Quickemu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  3. oVirt icon
     25 likes

    oVirt is a virtualization management application. That means that you can use the oVirt management interface ( the oVirt engine) to manage hardware nodes, storage and network resources, and to deploy and monitor virtual machines running in your data center.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. Multipass icon
     9 likes

    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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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
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  5. Xen Orchestra icon
     18 likes

    XO is a web UI providing a simple and nice web interface to manage XCP-ng and Citrix Hypervisor (formerly (XenServer) infrastructure (VM, servers, pools, etc.). It's also a fully feature backup solution for those platforms.

    19 Xen Orchestra alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. Lima icon
     4 likes

    Lima launches Linux virtual machines on macOS, with automatic file sharing, port forwarding, and containerd.

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    • Mac
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  7. QEMU Manager icon
     8 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. Apache Mesos icon
     20 likes

    Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.

    34 Apache Mesos alternatives

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    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9. Kimchi icon
     7 likes

    Kimchi is an HTML5 based management tool for KVM. It is designed to make it as easy as possible to get started with KVM and create your first guest.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. clearVM icon
     17 likes

    clearVM, formerly Witsbits, enables you to set up your servers with virtualization and deploy virtual machines faster than ever before. It’s a complete virtualization solution with a self-upgrading hypervisor and cloud-based centralized management, reducing time spent on...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. lume VM icon
     3 likes

    A lightweight CLI and local API server to create, run and manage macOS and Linux virtual machines (VMs) natively on Apple Silicon.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Python
    • Apple Swift
    • Homebrew
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