Applications

Parallels Desktop doesn’t pretend to be open-source or minimalist. It’s commercial software, fine-tuned for people who want their Windows apps to run inside macOS — and to forget they’re virtualized at all.

Virt-Manager isn’t exciting. It doesn’t try to compete with big orchestration stacks. But when local VMs need to be created, monitored, and adjusted without overhead — it gets the job done.

Virtuozzo isn’t shiny. It’s not trendy. But it works — and it’s been working for two decades in real environments, not labs.

Xen doesn’t apologize for being low-level. That’s the appeal. For those who need to see every layer, trace every interrupt, and know what the hypervisor’s actually doing — it’s still a solid choice.