Windows Sandbox Alternatives
Windows Sandbox is described as 'A new lightweight desktop environment tailored for safely running applications in isolation' and is a Virtualization tool in the network & admin category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Windows Sandbox for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Web-based apps. The best Windows Sandbox alternative is VirtualBox, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Windows Sandbox are WinBoat, QEMU, Sandboxie Plus and VMware Workstation Pro.
Alternatives list
33 Xen alternativesXen.org, home of the Xen hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization. It is a native (bare-metal) hypervisor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently.
20 Firejail alternativesFirejail is a SUID security sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
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40 VMware vSphere Hypervisor alternativesVMware vSphere Hypervisor ( based on ESXi ) is a free bare-metal hypervisor that virtualizes servers so you can consolidate your applications on less hardware.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- NVIDIA vGPU
- AMD MxGPU
38 Portable Virtualbox alternativesPortable-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.
53 Microsoft Hyper-V Server alternativesMicrosoft Hyper-V Server is a free product that delivers enterprise-class virtualization for your datacenter and hybrid cloud.
Lima launches Linux virtual machines on macOS, with automatic file sharing, port forwarding, and containerd.
23 MobaLiveCD alternativesMobaLiveCD is a freeware that will run your Linux LiveCD on Windows thanks to the excellent emulator called "Qemu".
11 Sandboxie alternativesThe original Sandboxie Plus (Classic) application, now open source and as Sandboxie-Plus.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
57 Multipass alternativesMultipass 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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Snapcraft
47 QEMU Manager alternativesQemu Manager is an easy to use management tool for the open-source QEMU emulator. It has a wealth of features for creating, managing and running multiple virtual machines.
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