virt-manager Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to virt-manager for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is VirtualBox, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to virt-manager and 14 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to virt-manager are VMware Workstation Player, Vagrant, Boxes and oVirt.

virt-manager alternatives are mainly Virtualization Tools but may also be Cloud Hosting Services or Operating Systems. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of virt-manager.

virt-manager

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Virtualization Tool

The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily...

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VirtualBox
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Free • Open Source
Virtualization Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Solaris
61 VirtualBox alternatives
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 performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as...
- - VirtualBox is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to virt-manager.
- - VirtualBox is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to virt-manager.
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VirtualBox Features
1. LightweightVirtualBox consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. Container VirtualizationVirtualBox can make use of isolated user spaces called "containers" to run applications.
3. PortableVirtualBox can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Multiple languages
Comments about VirtualBox as a Alternative to virt-manager
This alternative is disputed. VirtualBox is still a legitimate virt-manager alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.
Guest
virt-manager is a frontend for KVM and other VM hosts. VirtualBox is a VM host with a built-in frontend
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Guest
Type 1 vs Type 2 hypervisor
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VMware Workstation Player
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Virtualization Tool
Windows
Linux
38 VMware Workstation Player alternatives
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.
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virt-manager is a frontend for KVM and other VM hosts. VMware Workstation Player is a VM host with a built-in frontend
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Vagrant
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Free • Proprietary
Virtualization Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
VirtualBox
VMware Workstation
VMware Fusion
FreeBSD
18 Vagrant alternatives
Create and manage virtualized development environments. Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity, and makes...
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Vagrant Features
1. LightweightVagrant consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. Container VirtualizationVagrant can make use of isolated user spaces called "containers" to run applications.
Automated provisioning
Cluster management
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Guest
Vagrant is a configuration management platform, whereas virt-manager is a frontend for managing VMs on QEMU/KVM, Xen, and other hypervisors supported by libvirt.
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Boxes
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Free • Open Source
Virtualization Tool
Linux
BSD
Flathub
21 Boxes alternatives
A simple GNOME application to access virtual systems. It is based on a design from Jon McCann and Jakub Steiner.
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Boxes Features
1. Privacy focusedBoxes is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
2. Container VirtualizationBoxes can make use of isolated user spaces called "containers" to run applications.
3. LightweightBoxes consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
4. PortableBoxes can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
5. Command line interfaceBoxes either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
VNC Viewer
Security focused
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probably the closet software to virt-manager but it's not as feature rich
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oVirt
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Free • Open Source
Virtualization Tool
Linux
21 oVirt alternatives
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.
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oVirt Features
Cluster management
User friendly
High Availability
Quickemu
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
4 Quickemu alternatives
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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Multipass
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
55 Multipass alternatives
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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AQEMU
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Free • Open Source
Virtualization Tool
Linux
BSD
17 AQEMU alternatives
AQEMU is GUI to QEMU and KVM emulators, written in Qt4. The program have user-friendly interface and allows to set up the majority of QEMU and KVM …
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AQEMU Features
Graphical User Interface
GPLv3
Xen Orchestra
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Freemium • Open Source
Virtualization Tool
Linux
BSD
12 Xen Orchestra alternatives
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.
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Xen Orchestra Features
1. Differential BackupXen Orchestra supports differential backups (only back up the changed or new-added data since the last FULL backup).
Apache Mesos
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Free • Open Source
Virtualization Tool
Operating System
Mac
Linux
31 Apache Mesos alternatives
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.
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Apache Mesos Features
VPS
Hypervisor
JavaQemu
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Free • Open Source
Virtualization Tool
Mac
Windows
Linux
16 JavaQemu alternatives
JavaQemu is a Graphical User Interface Front End for QEMU, written in Java.
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JavaQemu Features
Emulation
Discontinued
Website states: "This project is no longer active because I stopped playing with Java since a long time."

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In the official site it says: This project is active again!
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QtEmu
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Linux
BSD
16 QtEmu alternatives
QtEmu is a graphical user interface for QEMU.
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QtEmu Features
Emulation
Discontinued
The project is unmaintained and the last release was on November 12th, 2007.