VirtualBox Alternatives for BSD

    There are many alternatives to VirtualBox for BSD if you are looking for a replacement. The best BSD alternative is QEMU, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to VirtualBox and six of them are available for BSD so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting BSD alternatives to VirtualBox are virt-manager (Free, Open Source), AQEMU (Free, Open Source), bhyve (Free, Open Source) and Qtemu (Free, Open Source).

    The list of alternatives was last updated May 17, 2021
    VirtualBox info, screenshots & reviewsAlternatives to VirtualBox
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    • QEMU

      QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that performs hardware virtualization. View 39 alternatives to QEMU
      Almost everyone thinks QEMU is a great alternative to VirtualBox.
      • Free • Open Source
      • Mac
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      QEMU vs VirtualBox
      pros, cons and recent comments
      arpeters It is supported by various frontends such as Virt Manager and AQEMU.
      Positive comment • over 1 year ago

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      It runs faster than virtualbox using KVM. Also is better suited for production level.
      Positive comment • over 4 years ago

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      It also performs hardware visualization
      Positive comment • over 4 years ago

      3
      It doesn't have a GUI to manage like Virtualbox or VMware. That's problematic.
      Negative comment • over 1 year ago

      -10

    • virt-manager

      The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. View 26 alternatives to virt-manager
      Almost everyone thinks virt-manager is a great alternative to VirtualBox.
      • Free • Open Source
      • Linux
      • BSD
      • Gentoo Linux
      • Fedora
      • Debian
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      virt-manager vs VirtualBox
      pros, cons and recent comments
      virt-manager with kvm/libvirtd is as powerfull as virtualbox, but much much more faster.
      Positive comment • 9 months ago

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      arpeters Fully open source alternative to VirtualBox available in Debian repository. I don't trust VirtualBox anymore since it was excluded from Debian main.
      Positive comment • over 1 year ago

      -1
      zinz this is not vm but a vm manager.
      Negative comment • about 4 years ago

      -10

    • AQEMU

      AQEMU is GUI to QEMU and KVM emulators, written in Qt4. View 15 alternatives to AQEMU
      • Free • Open Source
      • Linux
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    • bhyve

      bhyve (pronounced "bee hive", formerly written as BHyVe) is a type-2 hypervisor that runs on FreeBSD. View 18 alternatives to bhyve
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    • Qtemu

      QtEmu is a graphical user interface for Qtemu. View 15 alternatives to Qtemu

      Discontinued

      The project is unmaintained and the last release was on November 12th, 2007.

      • Free • Open Source
      • Windows
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      • PetiteCloud

        PetiteCloud is a HyperVisor frontend for BSD. View 18 alternatives to PetiteCloud
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