WinBoat Alternatives

WinBoat is described as 'Seamlessly runs Windows applications on Linux through an intuitive interface, supporting native OS-level windows, easy installation, and shared directories' and is a popular compatibility layer tool in the network & admin category. There are more than 50 alternatives to WinBoat for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best WinBoat alternative is VirtualBox, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinBoat are Wine, QEMU, Proton and VMware Workstation Pro.

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    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.

    38 Portable Virtualbox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. AQEMU icon
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    Cross-platform GUI virtual machine manager using QEMU as backend. Support Linux/BSD/Windows 8/10/11

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. RVVM icon
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    RVVM is a virtual machine / emulator for RISC-V guests, which emphasizes on performance, security, lean code and portability. It already runs a lot of guest operating systems, including Linux, Haiku, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
     
  4. Lima icon
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    Lima launches Linux virtual machines on macOS, with automatic file sharing, port forwarding, and containerd.

    57 Lima alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Multipass icon
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    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.

    57 Multipass alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
     
  6. Darling icon
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    Run macOS applications on Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Cassowary icon
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    Run Windows Applications on Linux as if they are native. Use Linux applications to launch files located in Windows WM without needing to install applications on WM. With easy to use configuration GUI. TEST.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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