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Oracle VM VirtualBox is a cross-platform hypervisor for running Windows, Linux, macOS, and other operating systems as virtual machines. It is aimed at developers, testers, students, and IT professionals who need a free desktop virtualization tool with broad guest-OS support.
💡 Pick it for stronger VM performance, hardware support, and networking on Windows or Linux.
VMware Workstation is a hosted hypervisor that runs on x64 versions of Windows and Linux operating systems.
💡 Pick it for the smoothest Windows-on-Mac experience, especially on Apple silicon.
Parallels Desktop is a software that allows users to run Windows, Linux, and other popular operating systems on a Mac without rebooting.
Starting from $79.99
💡 Pick it for open-source flexibility, automation, or emulating architectures VirtualBox does not support.
QEMU is a generic and open-source machine emulator and virtualizer.
💡 Pick it if you use Windows Pro or Server and want built-in Microsoft virtualization without another installer.
Hyper-V is a hypervisor developed by Microsoft that enables virtualization on Windows systems.
Free with Windows Server license
💡 Pick it for a free VMware-based option on Mac with stronger ecosystem compatibility than VirtualBox.
VMware Fusion is a powerful virtualization software for Mac that offers great performance and features.
Starting at $149.99
UTM
💡 Pick it for a free, Mac-native interface to both virtualization and QEMU emulation.
UTM is a graphical virtualization app for macOS that runs Linux, Windows, and other operating systems using QEMU and Apple's virtualization frameworks....
Free, open source; Mac App Store version $9.99
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