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* Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU
* Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU
* Product/project page: https://www.qemu.org/
* Product/project page: https://www.qemu.org/
* Overall rating: 🚌⏰ (2/5 random emoji)
QEMU is powerful because it can do CPU emulation, which sets it apart from the other hypervisors on this page. Unfortunately, it's ridiculously difficult to setup and use. I suggest using a GUI wrapper if possible, or to launch it from a script rather than a single command. This way, once you have the settings workable, you can save them for later use.
==VMware Workstation==
==VMware Workstation==
* Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation
* Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware_Workstation
* Product/project page: https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-pro.html
* Product/project page: https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-pro.html

Revision as of 13:10, 3 December 2019

A hypervisor (or virtual machine monitor, VMM) is a computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines.
 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervisor

This page is intended to be a place for me to 'review' these hypervisors. If it's listed here, I've used it.

Type 1 / Bare-Metal Hypervisors

Microsoft Hyper-V

Proxmox VE

VMware ESXi

XCP-ng

Xen


Type 2 / Userspace Hypervisors

Oracle VM VirtualBox

VBox is my go-to solution for running VMs on my workstations. Whether I'm working in Windows or Linux, it's easy to use and works reliably.

QEMU

QEMU is powerful because it can do CPU emulation, which sets it apart from the other hypervisors on this page. Unfortunately, it's ridiculously difficult to setup and use. I suggest using a GUI wrapper if possible, or to launch it from a script rather than a single command. This way, once you have the settings workable, you can save them for later use.

VMware Workstation