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Hyper-V documentation from Microsoft covering the top level functional specification and APIs for developers. It describes interfaces used by guest software to detect a hypervisor and query its capabilities, features and version information, including CPUID leaves, model-specific registers and hypercalls.
Windows Subsystem for Linux documentation from Microsoft. WSL lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment, including most command-line tools, utilities and applications, directly on Windows unmodified without the overhead of a traditional virtual machine or dual-boot setup.
Dockur is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
Dexpot is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
InfiniteMac is a web-based collection of classic Macintosh and NeXT system releases. It allows users to run selected versions of System Software, Mac OS, A/UX, Mac OS X, or NeXTStep in a virtual machine within a browser. An "Infinite HD" disk with era-appropriate software is available. Users can customize machine and disk choices, and on some systems import/export files and mount virtual CD-ROMs.
Looking Glass is open-source software for responsive, low-latency display and input, released under the GPL 2.0 licence. It brings a Windows desktop into a Linux window and is used with a KVM VGA PCI pass-through configuration without an attached physical monitor, keyboard or mouse.
OSBoxes provides ready-to-use virtual machine images in VDI, VMDK and VHD formats for VirtualBox and VMware. The site offers images of Linux and Unix systems that can be downloaded and run as a virtual machine on a host system, avoiding installation alongside the main operating system.
PCjs Machines offers online machine emulators written in JavaScript. It runs DOS, Windows, OS/2 and other vintage PC applications in a web browser on desktop computers, iPhones and iPads. Emulations also cover microcomputers, minicomputers, terminals, programmable calculators and arcade machines, alongside an archive of historical software and documentation.
QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. It provides full-system emulation, running operating systems for any machine on any supported architecture, and user-mode emulation for running programs for another Linux/BSD target. It also runs KVM and Xen virtual machines with near native performance.
Simone's Computer is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
Vagrantup is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
Virt-Manager is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, and also manages Xen and LXC containers. It shows a summary view of running domains with live performance and resource statistics, and includes wizards for creating domains and adjusting resource allocation and virtual hardware. An embedded VNC and SPICE client viewer provides a graphical console to the guest domain.
VirtualBox is general-purpose full virtualization software for x86_64 hardware, with version 7.1 additionally for macOS/Arm and version 7.2 also for Windows/Arm. It targets laptop, desktop, server and embedded use. The project is a community effort backed by Oracle, and releases include 7.2 maintenance releases that improve stability and fix regressions.
A virtual museum of operating systems and standalone applications running under emulation, delivered as a single Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM. It states that over 1,700 operating systems and applications are pre-installed and pre-configured, with bundled emulators, a custom emulator-independent launcher, and one-click launch scripts for Windows and Linux. A snapshot feature can revert broken installations.
Denodo Test Drives are free cloud sandbox environments for exploring data virtualization with the Denodo Platform. Each test drive contains a preconfigured solution and a step-by-step guide for demonstrating how data virtualization works across multiple data sources without replication. The page lists test drives for Agile BI and Analytics and for Data Catalog and Data Science.
JSLinux runs emulated operating systems in a web browser. The page lists emulated systems including Alpine Linux, Windows 2000, FreeDOS, Buildroot and Fedora 33, with console or X Window interfaces; some entries note AVX-512 and APX support or longer boot times.
v86 runs operating systems such as KolibriOS, Linux and Windows 98 in a browser. The page lists many emulated systems with details on interface, architecture, status and source, and provides filters for family, size, license and language.
Qemu is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
VMware Workstation Pro is a desktop virtualization application that runs multiple operating systems as virtual machines on a single physical machine. It is commonly used for software development, system testing and IT management tasks requiring isolated environments, and allows saving and reverting to previous states and controlling networking for VM guests.
Awesome Web Desktops helps customize desktop wallpapers, themes, backgrounds, or visual system appearance.
Awesome Wsl is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
Blink is a GitHub-hosted open source project that implements a minimal x86-64 Linux emulator, also referred to as Blinkenlights. The repository includes documentation for getting started with the emulator, alternative build options, and testing procedures.
Docker Container is a system utility for Windows, hardware checks, cleanup, process control, or desktop customization.
Dockerholics is a GitHub repository with apps and examples from the Dockerholics group. It includes Docker Compose examples and a list of free applications that can be hosted locally in Docker containers, described as images the group experts have tried out and verified. The repository is MIT licensed.
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