Proxmox
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DJDarren@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
What’s the best free alternative to VMWare Fusion?
I don’t need Windows a huge amount, but it’s useful to have it in a VM on my Macs for those odd occasions when I need the Windows version of Excel for work stuff.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 7 months ago
univers3man@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Proxmox isn’t an option for vmware fusion replacement. Fusion is a type 2 hypervisor running on Mac. The options are parallels desktop l and virtualbox.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Proxmox is a type 1 hypervisor
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Parallels has been in the OSX type2 hypervisor space for a very long time. It’s not free, but if it’s for “work stuff” i’d feel ok with paying for it.
mansfield@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My impression is that on M(n) silicon Parallels is the most polished virtualization experience on Mac you can get now. Virtualbox lives under the shadow of Oracle which is not a place you want to be.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Oh god, virtual box looks (and behaves) like it was developed as a high school exercise.
QEMU is so much better.
computergeek125@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think the company the bought VMware Fusion and workstation also owns Parallels
hperrin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Apple has their own hypervisor solution built into the OS, so there are apps that use that on the App Store, like UTM. It’s not free, but it seems pretty good and works on Apple Silicon, unlike VirtualBox.
bamboo@lemm.ee 7 months ago
UTM is really good as a free solution, otherwise Parallels is the go-to.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Does QEMU run on OSX? It’s what Proxmox uses for virtualization - it’s great.
macgyver@federation.red 7 months ago
Virtualbox