Alternatives to KVM
Compare KVM alternatives for your business or organization using the curated list below. SourceForge ranks the best alternatives to KVM in 2026. Compare features, ratings, user reviews, pricing, and more from KVM competitors and alternatives in order to make an informed decision for your business.
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Google Compute Engine
Google
Compute Engine is Google's infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform for organizations to create and run cloud-based virtual machines. Computing infrastructure in predefined or custom machine sizes to accelerate your cloud transformation. General purpose (E2, N1, N2, N2D) machines provide a good balance of price and performance. Compute optimized (C2) machines offer high-end vCPU performance for compute-intensive workloads. Memory optimized (M2) machines offer the highest memory and are great for in-memory databases. Accelerator optimized (A2) machines are based on the A100 GPU, for very demanding applications. Integrate Compute with other Google Cloud services such as AI/ML and data analytics. Make reservations to help ensure your applications have the capacity they need as they scale. Save money just for running Compute with sustained-use discounts, and achieve greater savings when you use committed-use discounts. -
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Thinfinity Workspace
Cybele Software, Inc.
Thinfinity® Workspace 7 is a comprehensive, secure platform that offers a zero-trust approach, enabling secure and contextual access to corporate virtual desktops, virtual applications, internal web apps, SaaS, and files, whether they are on Windows, Linux, or mainframes. It supports various deployment models, including cloud, on-premise, and hybrid settings, and can be deployed on any cloud provider of your choice. With its proprietary reverse gateway technology, Thinfinity® Remote Workspace 7 ensures secure reverse connections over SSL with TLS 1.3 encryption. This robust approach doesn't require client-side installations, firewall modifications, or the opening of inbound ports on your network, thereby enhancing the security infrastructure of your business. The platform ensures all browser-based connections are secured over HTTPS, offering a wide variety of authentication options, from straightforward User/Password to sophisticated Active Directory authentication. -
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V2 Cloud
V2 Cloud Solutions
V2 Cloud offers powerful, secure, and fully managed virtual desktops accessible from anywhere. Our platform is purpose-built for Independent Software Vendors, Managed Service Providers, IT professionals, and business owners looking to streamline operations, improve security, and scale efficiently. With V2 Cloud, you can easily start your desktops and apps in the cloud, enabling secure remote work from anywhere. Plus, you can access fully managed IT services, proactive security, and responsive support to scale effortlessly. Get the business resiliency you need! Boost your performance with the GPU-enhanced virtual machine and start working with heavy applications without crashes. Enjoy fast and professional support with global multilingual support. Discover how simple and cost-effective desktop virtualization can be with V2 Cloud. Try it today!Starting Price: $40 per month -
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Inuvika OVD Enterprise
Inuvika
Our virtual desktop solution, OVD Enterprise, delivers Windows and Linux apps and desktops (VDI) to any device. Built on Linux, it reduces Windows licensing requirements, needs less infrastructure and reduces total costs by up to 60% compared to Citrix or VMware Horizon (Omnissa). Microsoft SQL Server licenses are not required. It can be deployed on-premises or through any cloud provider. OVD is also available as a service through our network of Managed Services Providers. Migration from Citrix or Horizon is easy. OVD Enterprise integrates with today's leading enterprise standards, including any directory service, storage or hypervisor. Key Features: -Deliver Windows and Linux apps and desktops -Use any device - macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS/Android, Chromebook, Raspberry Pi, or any HTML5 Web browser. -Full multi-tenancy support -Full USB redirection -Integrated Two-Factor Authentication -Integrated secure gateway allows for secure remote access. No need for NetScalerStarting Price: $8.55/concurrent user/month -
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VMware Fusion Pro
Broadcom
VMware Fusion gives Mac users the power to run Windows on Mac along with hundreds of other operating systems side by side with Mac applications, without rebooting. Fusion is simple enough for home users and powerful enough for IT professionals, developers and businesses. Running Windows on Mac is only the beginning. VMware Fusion lets you choose from hundreds of supported operating systems, from lesser-known Linux distributions to the latest Windows 10 release, to run side by side with the latest macOS release. Fusion makes it simple to test nearly any OS and app on a Mac. Build and test apps in a sandbox while securely sharing local source files and folders. Fusion Pro now includes a RESTful API to integrate with modern development tools like Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, and others to fit the power of VMware into today’s Agile and DevOps-oriented production pipelines. -
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Azure Virtual Desktop
Microsoft
Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud. It’s the only virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimizations for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, and support for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments. Deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes, and get built-in security and compliance features. Bring your own device (BYOD) and access your desktop and applications over the internet using an Azure Virtual Desktop client such as Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, or HTML5. Choose the right Azure virtual machine (VM) to optimize performance and leverage the Windows 10 and Windows 11 multi-session advantage on Azure to run multiple concurrent user sessions and save costs. -
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Omnissa Horizon 8
Omnissa
Elevate the digital workspace experience with the efficient and secure delivery of virtual desktops and apps from on-premises to the cloud. Horizon 8 is a modern platform for secure delivery of virtual desktops and apps across the hybrid cloud, from the market leader in software-defined data center and digital workspaces. By leveraging unique integration with trusted technology, Horizon 8 helps IT efficiently deploy and scale virtual desktops and apps from a single control plane with rapid provisioning, automation, and simplified management to extend the best digital workspace experience to end users. Efficiently manage desktops and apps across private, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure using a cloud-based console and SaaS management services. Leverage intrinsic security built into Horizon infrastructure to gain highly secure remote access to corporate resources - providing protection from the device to the data center to the cloud. -
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Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat
The Kubernetes platform for big ideas. Empower developers to innovate and ship faster with the leading hybrid cloud, enterprise container platform. Red Hat OpenShift offers automated installation, upgrades, and lifecycle management throughout the container stack—the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications—on any cloud. Red Hat OpenShift helps teams build with speed, agility, confidence, and choice. Code in production mode anywhere you choose to build. Get back to doing work that matters. Red Hat OpenShift is focused on security at every level of the container stack and throughout the application lifecycle. It includes long-term, enterprise support from one of the leading Kubernetes contributors and open source software companies. Support the most demanding workloads including AI/ML, Java, data analytics, databases, and more. Automate deployment and life-cycle management with our vast ecosystem of technology partners.Starting Price: $50.00/month -
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StackBill
Assistanz Networks
StackBill is a complete self-service intuitive Cloud Management Portal with extensive features leveraging Apache CloudStack® with state of art years of expertise. StackBill facilitates Public Cloud providers with usage-based billing and charge-back solutions, multi-currency, multi-language support and preferred payment gateway options. StackBill helps data centers and public cloud providers with Customer Self Service Portal, Billing & Subscription Management, Provisioning Automation, Whitelabel CMP with Market Place, Setup & Migration Assistance. StackBill provides 24/7/365 consistent support for implementation and maintenance. Our built-in AI FAQ bot educate end customers on how to utilize the portal effectively, making StackBill a user-friendly platform.Starting Price: $0 -
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Xvisor
Xvisor
Xvisor® is an open-source type-1 hypervisor, which aims at providing a monolithic, light-weight, portable, and flexible virtualization solution. It provides a high performance and low memory foot print virtualization solution for ARMv5, ARMv6, ARMv7a, ARMv7a-ve, ARMv8a, x86_64, RISC-V and other CPU architectures. In comparison to other ARM hypervisors, it is one of the few hypervisors providing support for ARM CPUs which do not have ARM virtualization extensions. In RISC-V world, it is world first Type-1 RISC-V hypervisor. The Xvisor source code is highly portable and can be easily ported to most general-purpose 32-bit or 64-bit architectures as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the GNU C compiler (GCC). Xvisor primarily supports Full virtualization hence, supports a wide range of unmodified Guest operating systems. Paravirtualization is optional for Xvisor and will be supported in an architecture independent manner (such as VirtIO PCI/MMIO devices). -
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LXC
Canonical
LXC is a userspace interface for the Linux kernel containment features. Through a powerful API and simple tools, it lets Linux users easily create and manage system or application containers. LXC containers are often considered as something in the middle between a chroot and a full fledged virtual machine. The goal of LXC is to create an environment as close as possible to a standard Linux installation but without the need for a separate kernel. LXC is free software, most of the code is released under the terms of the GNU LGPLv2.1+ license, some Android compatibility bits are released under a standard 2-clause BSD license and some binaries and templates are released under the GNU GPLv2 license. LXC's stable release support relies on the Linux distributions and their own commitment to pushing stable fixes and security updates. -
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LXD
Canonical
LXD is a next generation system container manager. It offers a user experience similar to virtual machines but using Linux containers instead. It's image based with pre-made images available for a wide number of Linux distributions and is built around a very powerful, yet pretty simple, REST API. To get a better idea of what LXD is and what it does, you can try it online! Then if you want to run it locally, take a look at our getting started guide. The LXD project was founded and is currently led by Canonical Ltd with contributions from a range of other companies and individual contributors. The core of LXD is a privileged daemon which exposes a REST API over a local unix socket as well as over the network (if enabled). Clients, such as the command line tool provided with LXD itself then do everything through that REST API. It means that whether you're talking to your local host or a remote server, everything works the same way. -
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QEMU
QEMU
QEMU is a generic and open-source machine emulator and virtualizer. Run operating systems for any machine, on any supported architecture. Run programs for another Linux/BSD target, on any supported architecture. Run KVM and Xen virtual machines with near-native performance. Guest memory dumps are now fully supported, along with pre-copy/post-copy migration and background guest snapshots. Support for nw DEVICE_UNPLUG_GUEST_ERROR to detect guest-reported hotplug failures. macOS hosts with Apple Silicon CPUs now support ‘hvf’ accelerator for AArch64 guests. M-profile MVE extension is now supported for Cortex-M55. AMD SEV guests now support measurement of kernel binary when doing direct kernel boot (not using a bootloader). Support for vhost-user and numa mem options across all boards. -
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Red Hat Virtualization
Red Hat
Red Hat® Virtualization is an enterprise virtualization platform that supports key virtualization workloads including resource-intensive and critical applications, built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux® and KVM and fully supported by Red Hat. Virtualize your resources, processes, and applications with a stable foundation for a cloud-native and containerized future. Automate, manage, and modernize your virtualization workloads. Whether automating daily operations or managing your VMs in Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Virtualization uses the Linux® skills your team knows and will build upon for future business needs. Built on an ecosystem of platform and partner solutions and integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat OpenStack® Platform, and Red Hat OpenShift to improve overall IT productivity and drive a higher return on investment. -
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Apple Hypervisor
Apple
Build virtualization solutions on top of a lightweight hypervisor, without third-party kernel extensions. Hypervisor provides C APIs so you can interact with virtualization technologies in user space, without writing kernel extensions (KEXTs). As a result, the apps you create using this framework are suitable for distribution on the Mac App Store. Use this framework to create and control hardware-facilitated virtual machines and virtual processors (VMs and vCPUs) from your entitled, sandboxed, user-space process. Hypervisor abstracts virtual machines as processes, and virtual processors as threads. The Hypervisor framework requires hardware support to virtualize hardware resources. On Apple silicon, that includes the Virtualization Extensions. On Intel-based Mac computers, the framework supports machines with an Intel VT-x feature set that includes Extended Page Tables (EPT) and Unrestricted Mode. -
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VMware Workstation Pro
Broadcom
VMware Workstation Pro is the industry standard for running multiple operating systems as virtual machines (VMs) on a single Linux or Windows PC. IT professionals, developers and businesses who build, test or demo software for any device, platform or cloud rely on Workstation Pro. VMware Workstation Pro allows you to run multiple operating systems at once on the same Windows or Linux PC. Create real Linux and Windows VMs and other desktop, server, and tablet environments, complete with configurable virtual networking and network condition simulation, for use in code development, solution architecting, application testing, product demonstrations and more. Securely connect with vSphere, ESXi or other Workstation servers to launch, control and manage both virtual machines (VMs) and physical hosts. A common VMware hypervisor maximizes productivity and enables easy transfer of VMs to and from your local PC. -
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Parallels Desktop for Mac
Parallels
Whether you need to run Windows programs that don’t have Mac versions, or you are making the switch from PC to Mac and need to transfer your data, Parallels Desktop has you covered. Develop & test across multiple OSes in a virtual machine for Mac. Access Microsoft Office for Windows and Internet Explorer. Fast—run Windows apps without slowing down your Mac. Quickly move files, apps and more from a PC to a Mac. Use Windows side-by-side with macOS (no restarting required) on your MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac mini or Mac Pro. Share files and folders, copy and paste images and text & drag and drop files between Mac and Windows applications. Parallels Desktop automatically detects what you need to get started so you are up and going within minutes! If you need Windows, you’ll be prompted to Download and Install Windows 10 OR Choose your existing Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, or Boot Camp installation.Starting Price: $99.99 per year -
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VirtualBox
Oracle
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD. VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company. -
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Lguest
Lguest
Lguest allows you to run multiple copies of the same 32-bit kernel, simply modprobe lg, then run Documentation/lguest/lguest to create a new guest. I suggest you try this yourself, lguest is incredibly easy to get up and running. It's also quite useful: I can test-boot kernels with it in less than a second, or about 10x faster than basic qemu, and 100x faster than a real boot. And as it uses a pty as console, you can do things like pipe it through grep. lguest is all one big kernel patch, including the launcher. It's in 2.6.23-git13 and above. Lguest aims to isolate the guest so it cannot reach outside to the host (except for virtual devices supplied by the host of course), even if the guest is malicious. However, a malicious guest kernel can currently pin host memory (up to the amount of memory allowed to the guest). Most images are set up to create a console virtual consoles (/dev/tty0 etc), but the lguest console is /dev/hvc0. -
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CrossOver
CodeWeavers
Lots of people talk about open source. Talk is cheap. We code. Run your Windows® app on MacOS, Linux, or ChromeOS. CrossOver Mac® Do you like buying Windows® licenses? You do? Great. You do you. For the rest of humanity, CrossOver is the easiest way to run many Microsoft applications on your Mac without a clunky Windows emulator. (Seriously, have you tried emulators? Do you like how they run on your Mac?) CrossOver works differently. It's not an emulator. It does the work of translating Windows commands into Mac commands so that you can run Windows software as if it were designed native to Mac. CrossOver works with all kinds of software - productivity software, utility programs, and games - all with one application. CrossOver Linux® You are the noble of the noblest running Linux. You don't want the despair of running a Windows OS on your finely minted machine. You don't want to sell your soul for a Windows license or squander away your hard drive shekels running a virtual machineStarting Price: $59.95 -
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Synology Virtual Machine Manager
Synology
Virtual Machine Manager opens up abundant possibilities. You can set up and run various virtual machines, including Windows, Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Oracle) or Virtual DSM all on one Synology NAS. You can also test a new software version in a sandbox environment, isolate your customers' machines or increase the flexibility of your server. Synology VMM lets you build a cost-effective and easily managed virtualization environment by combining computing, storage and networking resources on a single hardware platform. VMM provides an equally intuitive experience as DiskStation Manager, offering a reliable storage solution with robust features. You can run multiple virtual machines on your Synology NAS with operating systems including Windows, Linux and Virtual DSM. -
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Microsoft Hyper-V
Microsoft
Hyper-V is Microsoft's hardware virtualization product. It lets you create and run a software version of a computer, called a virtual machine. Each virtual machine acts like a complete computer, running an operating system and programs. When you need computing resources, virtual machines give you more flexibility, help save time and money, and are a more efficient way to use hardware than just running one operating system on physical hardware. Each supported guest operating system has a customized set of services and drivers, called integration services, that make it easier to use the operating system in a Hyper-V virtual machine. Hyper-V includes Virtual Machine Connection, a remote connection tool for use with both Windows and Linux. Unlike Remote Desktop, this tool gives you console access, so you can see what's happening in the guest even when the operating system isn't booted yet. -
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System On Grid
System On Grid
We are redefining internet by converging cloud infrastructure by merging Orbits (VPS – Virtual Private Servers) with Web Hosting which provides dedicated and scalable resources, security, isolation, and automation backed by very high reliability and 99.99% uptime guarantee. Our Orbits come with different specs and different flavors like CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Free BSD, Net BSD etc. providing a lot of flexibility. The backend uses Intel E-5 processors, KVM hypervisor and Openstack. System On Grid Orbits are Virtual Instances (Virtual Private Servers/Machines) run by KVM hypervisor. The Orbits come with multiple Operating System Flavors including different Linux Distros like Centos, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc. Orbits also have an option of Unix flavors viz Free BSD and Net BSD. Orbits take full advantage of Intel CPUs VTX features and hardware abstraction. We also have tweaked the Host kernel to provide strong and robust performance.Starting Price: $8 per month -
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IBM z/VM
IBM
IBM z/VM is an operating system with security-rich and scalable hypervisor and virtualization technology designed to run guest servers such as Linux, z/OS and z/TPF virtual machines as well as Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z and LinuxONE servers. IBM z/VM runs hundreds to thousands of guest servers on a single IBM Z or IBM LinuxONE server with high efficiency and elasticity. It supports multiple machine images and architectures, simplifying migrations, facilitating application transitions, and consolidating systems onto one server. IBM z/VM excels in sharing system resources among virtual machines, offering extreme scalability, security, and efficiency, leading to cost savings and a robust foundation for cognitive computing. Use on-premises cloud computing in a hybrid cloud strategy. Scale and run thousands of Linux and container workloads efficiently. Help ensure continuous availability with IBM's resiliency offerings. -
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Hive Fabric
HiveIO
HiveIO Delivers the Most Advanced Virtualization Platform for VDI. Period. The only solution to deliver an entire Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, tightly integrated into a single product. For many organizations considering VDI, Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop seems like a great option at first glance. However, there are several questions you should ask before making a quick decision. This whitepaper will explore several key considerations when determining if WVD is the best choice for your team. HiveIO’s free community edition is intelligent virtualization software that give you the ability to create 5 virtual machines on a single host. See how Hive Fabric enables your remote workforce in a secure fashion -- at a fraction of the cost of other VDI options. Using swarm theory, intelligently utilize resources and scale your infrastructure. -
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Hornetsecurity VM Backup
Hornetsecurity
VM Backup (formerly Altaro VM Backup) is an award-wining virtual machine backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware environments. It is used by 40,000+ businesses worldwide. Designed for IT departments, IT resellers, IT consultants and Managed Service Providers (MSPs), the solution provides robust, streamlined, enterprise-level functionality. It’s characterised by ease of use, speed and affordability. With its WAN-Optimized Replication and Continuous Data Protection (CDP), you can achieve minimal RPO and RTO, i.e., drastically reduce the length of time your virtual machines are down and the amount of data lost when disaster strikes – to just minutes. Virtual machine backup and replication software packed with powerful features for Hyper-V and VMware.Starting Price: $595.00/one-time -
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Google Shielded VMs
Google
Shielded VMs are virtual machines (VMs) on Google Cloud hardened by a set of security controls that help defend against rootkits and bootkits. Using Shielded VMs helps protect enterprise workloads from threats like remote attacks, privilege escalation, and malicious insiders. Shielded VMs leverage advanced platform security capabilities such as secure and measured boot, a virtual trusted platform module (vTPM), UEFI firmware, and integrity monitoring. Quickly protect VMs against advanced threats: In just a few clicks, you can enable Shielded VMs to help protect against threats such as malicious project insiders, malicious guest firmware, and kernel- or user-mode vulnerabilities. & more -
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Oracle VM
Oracle
Designed for efficiency and optimized for performance, Oracle's server virtualization products support x86 and SPARC architectures and a variety of workloads such as Linux, Windows and Oracle Solaris. In addition to solutions that are hypervisor-based, Oracle also offers virtualization built in to hardware and Oracle operating systems to deliver the most complete and optimized solution for your entire computing environment. -
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VMLite Workstation
VMLite
VMLite Workstation is a virtualization component that allows you to run more than one operating system (OS) at the same time on a single physical computer. For example, you can simultaneously run Windows XP on a PC that is already running Windows 7. VMLite Workstation runs the operating system and applications directly on top of an existing operating system without any modification. The special environment running the unmodified OS and its applications is called a "Virtual Machine", which has features similar to a physical machine. The physical computer is usually called the "host", while the virtual machine is often called a "guest". The operating system running on the physical computer is called the "Host Operating System", while the operating system running inside the guest is called the "Guest Operating System".Starting Price: $199 one-time payment -
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Firejail
Firejail
Firejail is a SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf. It allows a process and all its descendants to have their own private view of the globally shared kernel resources, such as the network stack, process table, mount table. Written in C with virtually no dependencies, the software runs on any Linux computer with a 3.x kernel version or newer. The sandbox is lightweight, the overhead is low. There are no complicated configuration files to edit, no socket connections open, no daemons running in the background. All security features are implemented directly in Linux kernel and available on any Linux computer. -
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Virtuozzo
Virtuozzo
Virtuozzo, is a global leader in alternative cloud enablement, providing unique, purpose-built software which enables infrastructure and platform solutions to over 600 service providers around the world. Performance, flexibility, and ease of use define the product line up. Our partners can quickly, cost effectively and profitably create alternative private, public, hybrid or multi-clouds, rivalling those from major cloud providers, but with greater ROI, and customization. Service providers and enterprises can choose between various products and capabilities, using software defined networking, storage and powerful compute management and monitoring. Virtuozzo’s primary products allow for the rapid construction of virtual private servers (VPS), IaaS, PaaS, Storage-as-a-Service, Kubernetes-as-a-Service, WordPress-as-a-Service and Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS). -
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Cameyo
Cameyo
Cameyo is the secure Virtual Application Delivery (VAD) platform for any Digital Workspace. Cameyo makes it simple, seamless, and secure to deliver Windows and internal web applications to any device from the browser without the need for virtual desktops or VPNs. By enabling organizations to provide their people with secure access to the business-critical apps they need to stay productive from anywhere, Cameyo helps make remote & hybrid work, work. Hundreds of enterprises and organizations utilize Cameyo’s Digital Workspace solution to deliver Windows and internal web applications to hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.Starting Price: $12.00/month/user -
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µ-visor
Green Hills Software
µ-visor is Green Hill Software’s virtualization solution for microcontrollers. It features robust hardware-enforced software separation, multiple-OS support and real-time efficiency to safely and securely consolidate critical workloads on resource-constrained processors. µ-visor’s scalable and efficient architecture guarantees freedom-from-interference to multiple operating systems running on the same CPU and offers flexible options to fully utilize multiple cores and limited processor resources. Like other Green Hills products, µ-visor is designed for systems with critical requirements for industry-specific safety and security certifications and it enjoys the powerful support of Green Hills’ advanced integrated development tools. µ-visor’s virtual machines and their operating systems enjoy freedom-from-interference from each other through hardware-enforced separation -
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VMHeaven
VMHeaven
Privacy-focused hosting with DDoS protection, DMCA-ignored servers, crypto payments, and 24/7 support. Enjoy secure, censorship-free hosting. VMHeaven offers high-performance virtual private servers (VPS) with cutting-edge hardware, including AMD EPYC, Ryzen, and Intel Xeon processors, ensuring maximum reliability and performance. With features like 99.5% uptime, unmetered bandwidth, DDoS protection, and privacy-focused payment options, it’s designed to meet the needs of developers and businesses requiring robust, secure server infrastructure.Starting Price: $4.99/month -
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Kata Containers
Kata Containers
Kata Containers is Apache 2 licensed software consisting of two main components: the Kata agent, and the Kata Containerd shim v2 runtime. It also packages a Linux kernel and versions of QEMU, Cloud Hypervisor and Firecracker hypervisors. Kata Containers are as light and fast as containers and integrate with the container management layers—including popular orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes (k8s)—while also delivering the security advantages of VMs. Kata Containers supports Linux (host and guest) for now. On the host side, we have installation instructions for several popular distributions. We also have out-of-the-box support for Clear Linux, Fedora, and CentOS 7 rootfs images through the OSBuilder which can also be used to roll your own guest images. -
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V-locity
Condusiv Technologies
Throughput acceleration software for virtual servers - boosts Windows application performance at least 30%. Guaranteed to solve your toughest application performance challenges on I/O intensive systems, like MS-SQL! V-locity eliminates the two big I/O inefficiencies in a virtual environment that generate a minimum of 30-40% I/O traffic that is nothing but mere noise dampening performance and unnecessarily chewing up precious storage IOPS. Not only can you expect an immediate boost and reclaim 30-40% of your storage IOPS, but many offload upwards of 50% of I/O traffic from storage for big performance gains in the 2X-10X range, by simply allocating a little extra memory on key systems to better leverage V-locity for an even bigger benefit on MS-SQL workloads, Oracle, ERP, VDI, EHR (MEDITECH), Business Intelligence (BI) apps, CRM, Exchange, SharePoint, file servers, backup, and more. Just download and install - no reboot required! Watch Performance return and shadow IT problems disappear!Starting Price: $524.95 -
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Leostream
Leostream Corporation
Connect to anything - anywhere, any time, and from any device, quickly and securely. A modern web-based UI is your centralized hub for all your remote resources. Management wants Windows, designers want macOS, and developers want Linux - support multi-OS environments with ease. Leostream works seamlessly with Teradici Cloud Access Software and PCoIP Remote Workstation Cards, providing high-quality graphics for applications running in the datacenter or the cloud. Together, Leostream and Scale Computing offer a complete VDI solution that is simple to set up, easy to manage, and cost-effective for small business. Leostream manages user-to-resource assignments and connections in large-scale enterprise environments from wherever your users roam. Build a VDI or DaaS solution your clients will love with Leostream. Leostream provides all the tools you need to build and deploy a VDI.Starting Price: $7.50 per user per month -
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KubeVirt
KubeVirt
KubeVirt technology addresses the needs of development teams that have adopted or want to adopt Kubernetes but possess existing Virtual Machine-based workloads that cannot be easily containerized. More specifically, the technology provides a unified development platform where developers can build, modify, and deploy applications residing in both application containers as well as virtual machines in a common, shared environment. The benefits are broad and significant. Teams with a reliance on existing virtual machine-based workloads are empowered to rapidly containerize applications. With virtualized workloads placed directly in development workflows, teams can decompose them over time while still leveraging the remaining virtualized components as is comfortably desired. Combine existing virtualized workloads with new container workloads on the one platform. Support development of new microservice applications in containers that interact with existing virtualized applications. -
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DRBD
LINBIT
DRBD® (Distributed Replicated Block Device) is an open source, software‑based, shared‑nothing block storage replication solution for Linux, designed primarily to deliver high-performance, high‑availability (HA) data services by mirroring local block devices between nodes in real time, either synchronously or asynchronously. Implemented deep in the Linux kernel as a virtual block‑device driver, DRBD ensures local read performance with efficient write‑through replication to peer(s). User‑space utilities like drbdadm, drbdsetup, and drbdmeta enable declarative configuration, metadata management, and administration across installations. Originally built for two‑node HA clusters, DRBD 9.x extends support to multi‑node replication and integration into software‑defined storage (SDS) systems such as LINSTOR, making it suitable for cloud‑native environments.Starting Price: Free -
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Photon OS
VMware
Project Photon OS™ is an open source, minimal Linux container host that is optimized for cloud-native applications, cloud platforms, and VMware infrastructure. Photon OS 3.0 introduces ARM64 support, installer improvements and updated packages. We invite partners, customers, and community members to collaborate on using Photon OS to run high-performance virtual machines and containerized applications. Contains everything needed to install. Choose between a minimal or a full installation to suit your deployment needs. Photon can be installed from ISO directly, or can be used with PXE/kickstart environments for automated installations. Portable, ready-to-go virtual environment. Photon OS Open Virtual Appliance packages include a highly sanitized and optimized kernel and packages to streamline and standardize appliance deployments. Use Photon OS as a Development Environment for building modern applications. -
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AWS Nitro System
Amazon
The AWS Nitro System is the foundation for the latest generation of Amazon EC2 instances, enabling AWS to innovate faster, reduce costs for customers, and deliver enhanced security and new instance types. By reimagining virtualization infrastructure, AWS has offloaded functions such as CPU, storage, and networking virtualization to dedicated hardware and software, allowing nearly all server resources to be allocated to instances. This architecture comprises several key components: Nitro Cards, which offload and accelerate I/O for functions like VPC, EBS, and instance storage; the Nitro Security Chip, providing a minimized attack surface and prohibiting administrative access to eliminate human error and tampering; and the Nitro Hypervisor, a lightweight hypervisor that manages memory and CPU allocation, delivering performance nearly indistinguishable from bare metal. The Nitro System's modular design allows for rapid delivery of EC2 instance types. -
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DragonFly BSD
DragonFly BSD
DragonFly version 6.2.2 is released. The 6.2 series has hardware support for type-2 hypervisors with NVMM, an amdgpu driver, the experimental ability to remote-mount HAMMER2 volumes, and many other changes. DragonFly belongs to the same class of operating systems as other BSD-derived systems and Linux. It is based on the same UNIX ideals and APIs and shares ancestor code with other BSD operating systems. DragonFly provides an opportunity for the BSD base to grow in an entirely different direction from the one taken in the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD series. DragonFly includes many useful features that differentiate it from other operating systems in the same class. The most prominent one is HAMMER, our modern high-performance filesystem with built-in mirroring and historic access functionality. Virtual kernels provide the ability to run a full-blown kernel as a user process for the purpose of managing resources or for accelerated kernel development and debugging.Starting Price: Free -
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BVR CLOUD
BVR CLOUD
BVR CLOUD is an American privately-owned cloud hosting company that provides Cloud Products Ranging from Virtual Machines to Managed Satellites. Currently, it Provides More than 50 Products." BVR CLOUD Products Includes Virtual Machines Baremetal Servers GPU Kubernetes Virtual Desktops Onetime Bandwidth Object Storage Block Storage Longterm Store Longterm Store Plus Content Delivery Network Cloud firewall Managed Satellites Audio/Video Streaming Transcoder Loadbalancer, etc.Starting Price: $10 -
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Azure Bastion
Microsoft
Managed RDP/SSH to VMs over SSL using private IP on the VM Azure Bastion is a fully managed PaaS service that provides secure and seamless RDP and SSH access to your virtual machines directly through the Azure Portal. Azure Bastion is provisioned directly in your Virtual Network (VNet) and supports all VMs in your Virtual Network (VNet) using SSL without any exposure through public IP addresses. Connect your RDP and SSH sessions directly in the Azure Portal using a single click experience Log into your Azure virtual machines and avoid public Internet exposure using SSH and RDP with private IP addresses only Integrate and traverse existing firewalls and security perimeter using a modern HTML5 based web client and standard SSL ports Use your SSH keys for authentication when logging into your Azure virtual machines -
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Hv Manager
Apreltech
Hv Manager is used for the managing of Hyper-V virtual machines, this program is designed to be run through a web browser. You can create multi-user access with role-based authentication on Hyper-V servers. You can also configure multi-user access from any computer to virtual machines through a web browser and delegate users and classes to virtual machines. It offers a stable HTTPS and User Authentication link to the web interface. It is developed by AprelTech which was created by a team of developers with the aim of developing effective, scalable, and robust applications for system administration. Hyper-V Manager offers principal features over the web interface. It can be deployed on a server with an enabled Hyper-V role, including Server Core and Nano installations. The easy to use web user interface helps users to access virtual machines from web-enabled devices.Starting Price: $299 per server -
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SecureDoc CloudVM
WinMagic
WinMagic’s SecureDoc CloudVM solution is the industry’s most comprehensive full disk encryption and intelligent encryption key management for your virtual machines. It protects your data in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. It ensures that your volume and full disk encryption keys are in exclusive control of your organization. With the widest support from virtualized servers to numerous public and private Clouds, SecureDoc CloudVM enables a unified encryption strategy across any end point, virtualized or cloud IaaS environment. By providing a single platform and pane of glass, SecureDoc CloudVM increases enterprise security, ensures encryption compliance, reduces complexity and removes silos of encryption within your organization. WinMagic’s SecureDoc will allow you the convenience of a common platform to manage key and encryption needs intelligently, meaning that you control all aspects of your data security. -
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Azure Virtual Machines
Microsoft
Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server. Deploy virtual machines featuring up to 416 vCPUs and 12 TB of memory. Get up to 3.7 million local storage IOPS per VM. Take advantage of up to 30 Gbps Ethernet and cloud’s first deployment of 200 Gbps InfiniBand. Select the underlying processors – AMD, Ampere (Arm-based), or Intel - that best meet your requirements. Encrypt sensitive data, protect VMs from malicious threats, secure network traffic, and meet regulatory and compliance requirements. Use Virtual Machine Scale Sets to build scalable applications. Reduce your cloud spend with Azure Spot Virtual Machines and reserved instances. Build your private cloud with Azure Dedicated Host. Run mission-critical applications in Azure to increase resiliency. -
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IBM PowerVC
IBM
IBM PowerVC is an OpenStack-based virtualization management solution designed to simplify the deployment and management of virtual machines across IBM Power Systems running AIX, IBM i, and Linux. It offers rapid deployment capabilities, reducing time-to-value through straightforward installation and configuration processes. The intuitive user interface minimizes the need for specialized training, enhancing administrator productivity. PowerVC facilitates efficient resource utilization by enabling resource pooling and implementing placement policies, thereby optimizing IT costs. The Dynamic Resource Optimizer (DRO) provides policy-based automation for active workload balancing within host groups, ensuring optimal performance. VM templates support consistency and standardization, streamlining deployments and reducing labor costs. Key features include automated I/O configuration for mobility and high availability, and seamless import and deployment of workload images. -
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CachyOS
CachyOS
CachyOS is a performance-focused Linux distribution based on Arch Linux that aims to deliver a faster and more responsive computing experience through deep system-level optimizations. It rebuilds core components, including the kernel and software packages, using modern CPU instruction sets such as x86-64-v3, x86-64-v4, and Zen4, along with advanced techniques like link-time optimization and profile-guided optimization to maximize efficiency without requiring manual tuning. It includes a custom kernel with multiple scheduler options designed to improve responsiveness and interactivity, as well as enhanced throughput across different workloads. CachyOS maintains the rolling-release model of Arch Linux, providing continuous updates and access to the latest software while preserving flexibility and control. It offers both graphical and command-line installers, making it accessible to beginners while still allowing advanced users full customization over their setup.Starting Price: Free -
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Zephyr
Zephyr
From simple embedded environmental sensors and LED wearables to sophisticated embedded controllers, smart watches, and IoT wireless applications. Implements configurable architecture-specific stack-overflow protection, kernel object and device driver permission tracking, and thread isolation with thread-level memory protection on x86, ARC, and ARM architectures, userspace, and memory domains. For platforms without MMU/MPU and memory constrained devices, supports combining application-specific code with a custom kernel to create a monolithic image that gets loaded and executed on a system’s hardware. Both the application code and kernel code execute in a single shared address space.
