INFORMATICS

VirtualBox - Best for virtualization for enterprise and home use for free.

Price: Free Virtual Machine for Personal and Educational use . Personal Use and/or Educational Use expressly exclude any use of the Product for commercial purposes or to operate or run a business, organization, governmental organization, or educational institution.

Website: Virtual Box

VMware Workstation Player - .

Price: Workstation Player is a free application and a non-advanced virtualization application. Workstation Player is a more basic and non-commercial virtualization tool, whereas Workstation Pro is a more advanced and professional virtualization solution for creating and managing Virtual Machines. The licensed version enables Workstation Player to run VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro Virtual Machines. Non-licensed Workstation Player cannot run multiple VMs at once. VMware Workstation Player is free to use, whereas the VMware Workstation Pro requires a license.

Website: VMware

Oracle VM - Best for developing and deploying virtual environments on Windows, Solaris, and Linux for free.

Price: Free

Website: Oracle VM

Hyper-V - Best for creating virtual environments on Windows 10 and Windows Server for free.

Price: Free

Website: Hyper-V

QEMU - Best for creating a virtual environment on multiple architectures and OS for free.

Price: Free

Website: QEMU

Citrix Hypervisor - Best for testing intensive workloads in a virtualized environment for Citrix Virtual App users.

Price:

• Free for Citrix Virtual Apps users only
• Citrix Virtual app: $10 per user per month

Website: Citrix Hypervisor

Red Hat Virtualization - Best for enterprise-level virtualization for a containerized or cloud-native environment.

Price:

• Contact sales for a quote
• Trial: Yes | 60 days

Website: Red Hat Virtualization

VMware Fusion - Best for enterprise-level virtualization for a containerized or cloud-native environment.

Price:

• $149 – $241
• Trial: Yes | 30 days
• Website: VMware Fusion

Xen Project - Best for server virtualization, Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS), and desktop virtualization for free.

Price: Free

Website: Xen Project

Google Cloud Compute Engine - Best for secure and customizable virtualization on multiple platforms.

Price:

• Contact sales for price
• Trial: Yes | 90 days

Website: Google Cloud Computer Engine

KVM - Best for full virtualization of apps on x86 computers running Linux OS.

Price: Free

Website: KVM

Parallels Desktop  - Best for Windows, Linux, Mac.

Price: 80 $

Website: Parallels

MOBALiveCD  - Best for Windows, Linux, Mac.

Price: Free

Website: Parallels