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 19 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to virt-manager are WinBoat, VMware Workstation Player, Vagrant and Cockpit Project.

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    VirtualBox

     2934 likes

    Open source VirtualBox offers powerful x86/AMD64 virtualization available freely under GNU GPL v2. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris hosts. Supports a vast array of guest OS like Windows, Linux, Solaris. Portable, lightweight, ad-free, with dark mode.

    65 VirtualBox alternatives

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Oracle Solaris
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    Comments about VirtualBox as an Alternative to virt-manager
    Guest
    Negative
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    virt-manager is a frontend for KVM and other VM hosts. VirtualBox is a VM host with a built-in frontend

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    edortta71
    Negative
    0

    VirtualBox is a virtualizer while virt-manager is a GUI software that helps to administrate virtual machines in libvirt, LXE, etc environments

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    0

    Type 1 vs Type 2 hypervisor

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • This alternative is disputed. VirtualBox is a legitimate virt-manager alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • VirtualBox is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to virt-manager.

    • VirtualBox is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to virt-manager.

    • VirtualBox is Free and Open Sourcevirt-manager is also Free and Open Source
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    WinBoat

     64 likes

    Runs Windows applications, individual apps, or full desktops inside Linux with native OS-level integration, sleek interface, advanced filesystem sharing, smartcard passthrough, and resource monitoring while supporting simple installation and ongoing feature updates.

    52 WinBoat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Docker
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  4. VMware Workstation Player icon

    VMware Workstation Player

     247 likes

    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.

    40 VMware Workstation Player alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Comments about VMware Workstation Player as an Alternative to virt-manager
    Guest
    Negative
    6

    virt-manager is a frontend for KVM and other VM hosts. VMware Workstation Player is a VM host with a built-in frontend

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    edortta71
    Negative
    0

    It's a virtualizer while lib-virt is an opensource GUI fot XEN, libvritd, etc....

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • This alternative is disputed. VMware Workstation Player is a legitimate virt-manager alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • VMware Workstation Player is Free Personal and Proprietaryvirt-manager is Free and Open Source
  5. Vagrant icon

    Vagrant

     107 likes

    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...

    22 Vagrant alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • VirtualBox
    • VMware Workstation Pro
    • VMware Fusion
    • FreeBSD
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    Comments about Vagrant as an Alternative to virt-manager
    Guest
    Negative
    4

    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.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Vagrant is Free and Open Sourcevirt-manager is also Free and Open Source
  6. Cockpit Project icon

    Cockpit Project

     39 likes

    Makes it easy to administer Linux servers via a web browser. It allows you to easily perform simple tasks like storage administration, inspecting journals, starting & stopping services, monitoring & administering several servers at once.

    33 Cockpit Project alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
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    Boxes

     30 likes

    A simple GNOME application to access virtual systems. It is based on a design from Jon McCann and Jakub Steiner.

    28 Boxes alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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    Comments about Boxes as an Alternative to virt-manager
    Guest
    Positive
    6

    probably the closet software to virt-manager but it's not as feature rich

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Boxes is Free and Open Sourcevirt-manager is also Free and Open Source
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    Quickemu

     10 likes

    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:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    Comments about Quickemu as an Alternative to virt-manager
    Kris Regina
    0

    Great on Linux, But I'm not sure about how it runs on macOS. Unfortunately, it is not available for Windows.

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    • Quickemu is Free and Open Sourcevirt-manager is also Free and Open Source
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    oVirt

     24 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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  12. Xen Orchestra icon

    Xen Orchestra

     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.

    15 Xen Orchestra alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  13. Multipass icon

    Multipass

     7 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.

    59 Multipass alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
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    Apache Mesos

     20 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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