Lima alternatives
Lima is an open-source tool that runs Linux virtual machines on macOS, offering automatic file sharing, port forwarding, and containerd support. It functions as an unofficial macOS Linux subsystem, enabling Intel and ARM architectures with varying compatibility levels.
Alternatives
- VirtualBox
- WinBoat
- QEMU
- Proxmox Virtual Environment
- VMware Workstation Pro
- Vagrant
- KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
- virt-manager
- Parallels Desktop
- VMware Workstation Player
- UTM
- Boxes
- VMware Fusion
- Windows Sandbox
- Xen
- VMware vSphere Hypervisor
- AQEMU
- Microsoft Hyper-V Server
- XCP-ng
- Portable Virtualbox
- Multipass
- MobaLiveCD
- lume VM
- Qemu Simple Boot
- PCem
- Bushel
- Bochs
- MacMulator
- QEMU Manager
- bhyve
- VirtualBuddy
- Citrix Hypervisor
- OpenVZ
- PCE
- Karton VM
- Karton
- Vmtek
- v86
- QtEmu
- PocketVBox
- R&S Browser in the Box
- 86Box
- CheerpX
- JavaQemu
- Cassowary
- clearVM
- Veertu
- PetiteCloud
- FAUMachine
- VMware vSphere
- VMLite Workstation
- PCjs Machines
- JPCSIM
- WolfStack
- Softmagnat Virtual Machine Recovery Tool
- Flint KVM Management
- xhypervisor
- Sylve
- pcemu
- Collax V-Bien
- WinPodX
- PCE.js
- Quickgui