Free VMware Fusion Alternatives
The best free alternative to VMware Fusion is VirtualBox, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to VMware Fusion and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to VMware Fusion are VMware Workstation Player (Free Personal), KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) (Free, Open Source), Portable Virtualbox (Free, Open Source) and Boxes (Free, Open Source).
- VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. View 57 alternatives to VirtualBox
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Solaris
VirtualBox vs VMware Fusion
ByteRanger While VirtualBox has never failed me on a Linux host, I have never been able to get VirtualBox working reliably on MacOS. The free/opensource part of VirtualBox doesn't even hold a candle to VMware feature wise. The added extensions module that makes it more comparable to VMware is only free for personal use, and the commercial license is priced like VMware's server offerings, many times more expensive than VMware Fusion Pro.Hansaplast VirtualBox is a free alternativeJohnFastman VirtualBox is almost always the better option compared to VMWare. Open source and free, works on Windows, Mac and Linux. Vital and important software for running virtual machines, testing other operating systems, etc.vb078 Open source and free with nearly the same options. - 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. View 35 alternatives to VMware Workstation Player
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Windows
- Linux
VMware Workstation Player vs VMware Fusion
ByteRanger Does not run on MacOS. VMware has released Fusion Player as the MacOS equivalent of Workstation Player. - KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). View 36 alternatives to KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Android
- 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. View 39 alternatives to Portable Virtualbox
- A simple GNOME application to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems. View 18 alternatives to Boxes
- a new lightweight desktop environment tailored for safely running applications in isolation. View 47 alternatives to Windows Sandbox
- bhyve (pronounced "bee hive", formerly written as BHyVe) is a type-2 hypervisor that runs on FreeBSD. View 18 alternatives to bhyve
- Darling — macOS translation layer for Linux Fast Darling runs macOS software directly without using a hardware emulator. View 19 alternatives to Darling
- Qemu Simple Boot lets you to Boot ISO images without having to burn them to disc first , it is is a portable freeware virtualization tool View 23 alternatives to Qemu Simple Boot
- Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. View 37 alternatives to bochs