Compare the Top Virtualization Software for Windows as of October 2026

What is Virtualization Software for Windows?

Virtualization software enables the creation and management of virtual machines (VMs) that emulate physical computers. By abstracting the underlying hardware, it allows multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine, improving resource utilization and flexibility. Virtualization provides an isolated environment for applications, increasing security and stability by preventing conflicts between different software systems. It also simplifies the management of IT infrastructure, as virtual machines can be easily created, cloned, and moved between different hosts. This technology is crucial for businesses looking to scale their operations, optimize resource usage, and improve disaster recovery processes. Compare and read user reviews of the best Virtualization software for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Kasm Workspaces

    Kasm Workspaces

    Kasm Technologies

    Kasm Workspaces streams your workplace environment directly to your web browser…on any device and from any location. Kasm uses our high-performance streaming and secure isolation technology to provide web-native Desktop as a Service (DaaS), application streaming, and secure/private web browsing. Kasm is not just a service; it is a highly configurable platform with a robust developer API and devops-enabled workflows that can be customized for your use-case, at any scale. Workspaces can be deployed in the cloud (Public or Private), on-premise (Including Air-Gapped Networks or your Homelab), or in a hybrid configuration.
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    Starting Price: $0 Free Community Edition
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    ManageEngine OpManager
    OpManager is a network management tool geared to monitor your entire network. Ensure all devices operate at peak health, performance, and availability. The extensive network monitoring capabilities lets you track performance of switches, routers, LANs, WLCs, IP addresses, and firewalls. Monitor the finer aspects of your network: Hardware monitoring enables CPU, memory, and disk monitoring, for efficient. performance of all devices. Perform seamless faults and alerts management with real-time notifications and detailed logs for quick issue detection and resolution. Achieve network automation, with workflows enabling automated diagnostics and troubleshooting actions. Advanced network visualization-including business views, topology maps, heat maps, and customizable dashboards give admins an at-a-glance view of network status. 250+ pre-built reports covering metrics like device performance, network usage, uptime, facilitate capacity planning and improved decision-making.
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    Starting Price: $95.00/one-time
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    ConnectWise Automate
    Solve IT problems at the speed of business with ConnectWise Automate. A robust remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, ConnectWise Automate helps boost the effectiveness of IT teams. It offers teams the ability to discover all devices and users that need to be proactively monitored, remove delivery roadblocks, and support more endpoints without adding headaches or head count.
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    V2 Cloud

    V2 Cloud

    V2 Cloud Solutions

    V2 Cloud is a virtual cloud computing platform that enables organizations to securely deliver workstations and all of the computing resources associated with them, such as files and databases, business applications of any kind, and servers of any kind including Linux, to users anywhere in the world. While V2 Cloud is often described as Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), it goes well beyond virtual desktops: it's a complete cloud computing environment that brings desktops, applications, data, and servers together in one managed platform. Unlike traditional VDI solutions that require significant IT resources and specialized infrastructure expertise, V2 Cloud provides an intuitive, managed platform that can be deployed in minutes. Organizations can centralize computing resources, improve security, simplify IT operations, and support remote, hybrid, branch, and distributed workforces without investing in on-premise infrastructure.
    Starting Price: $40 per VM per month
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    Hornetsecurity VM Backup
    VM Backup (formerly Altaro VM Backup) is an award-wining virtual machine backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware environments. It is used by 40,000+ businesses worldwide. Designed for IT departments, IT resellers, IT consultants and Managed Service Providers (MSPs), the solution provides robust, streamlined, enterprise-level functionality. It’s characterised by ease of use, speed and affordability. With its WAN-Optimized Replication and Continuous Data Protection (CDP), you can achieve minimal RPO and RTO, i.e., drastically reduce the length of time your virtual machines are down and the amount of data lost when disaster strikes – to just minutes. Virtual machine backup and replication software packed with powerful features for Hyper-V and VMware.
    Starting Price: $595.00/one-time
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    Citrix DaaS

    Citrix DaaS

    Cloud Software Group

    Enable secure, flexible work with the leader in virtual apps and desktops. Deliver desktop as a service (DaaS) from any cloud or data center. Get started with Citrix DaaS (formerly Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service) in minutes to provide a familiar, high-performance digital workspace experience to your users. We’ll manage the infrastructure and security. You focus on your business. Meet the needs of your modern workforce—and keep sensitive data secure. Citrix DaaS lets you provide a secure workspace experience on any device. It’s all the cost benefits of a managed DaaS solution, plus the added advantages of greater IT agility, better corporate security, and more end-user productivity. Keep apps and data protected while fueling employee productivity. Build a better business continuity plan with easy-to-scale workspace solutions. Simplify virtual app and desktop delivery with proven DaaS solutions.
    Starting Price: $12 per user per month
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    Reboot Restore Rx

    Reboot Restore Rx

    Horizon Datasys

    Protect your public PCs from going out-of-order. Instantly reset to the baseline on startup or hard reset. Update the baseline without restarting your computer. Drastically reduces computer maintenance, and can be used to protect tier one public access computing environments. (Formerly Drive Vaccine) Reboot Restore Rx Pro prevents any and all changes made on your drive(s) making those PCs bulletproof and unbreakable. It is designed for public access computing environments such as schools, computer labs, kiosks, hotels, internet cafes, and libraries. We understand it takes a certain fortitude to service PCs in the public domain where users are not always careful and computer usage is high. That is why we built Reboot Restore Rx Pro to be fast, effective and efficient. Regardless of what a user does (including erasing files, installing software or even hacking the system registry) Reboot Restore Rx Pro will automatically restore the PC to your desired system state on a schedule you set.
    Starting Price: $39.00/one-time/user
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    Virtuozzo

    Virtuozzo

    Virtuozzo

    Virtuozzo, is a global leader in alternative cloud enablement, providing unique, purpose-built software which enables infrastructure and platform solutions to over 600 service providers around the world. Performance, flexibility, and ease of use define the product line up. Our partners can quickly, cost effectively and profitably create alternative private, public, hybrid or multi-clouds, rivalling those from major cloud providers, but with greater ROI, and customization. Service providers and enterprises can choose between various products and capabilities, using software defined networking, storage and powerful compute management and monitoring. Virtuozzo’s primary products allow for the rapid construction of virtual private servers (VPS), IaaS, PaaS, Storage-as-a-Service, Kubernetes-as-a-Service, WordPress-as-a-Service and Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS).
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    Parallels RAS

    Parallels RAS

    Parallels

    Parallels® Remote Application Server (RAS) is a remote work solution that provides secure virtual access to business applications and desktops on any device or OS—from anywhere. The platform offers an agile, cloud-ready foundation and end-to-end security fueled by a centralized management console with granular policies. Companies can leverage on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud deployments and integrate with existing technology like Microsoft Azure and AWS. Parallels RAS aims to give organizations the flexibility, scalability, and IT agility to adapt to changing business needs. Parallels RAS offers a single, full-featured licensing model that includes 24/7 support and access to product training.
    Starting Price: $120 US/year/concurrent user
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    WorkDesk

    WorkDesk

    SquareOps

    Work From AnyWhere, AnyTime & AnyDevice. Enable remote working by using cloud windows desktop which provides a seamless remote work experience to your teams on the cloud with high security, low-cost & scalabilty, ensuring business continuity. Virtual Cloud Desktops comes with Advanced Threat Protection on Windows 2019 Edition. Great Features. Manage end to end WorkDesk that can provide everything you need for seamless remote work to continue with a click of few buttons. No Upfront Cost. Pay-Per-Use model where you pay for only what you use, hourly cost is billed. Choose Any Configuration. Upgrade or Downgrade a system configuration based on your need's with one click. Secure Access. Comes with In-build feature of secure access & can be modified to meet the requirements. Cloud Storage. Data is stored on cloud,therefore it is secure & available anytime from any device. Ease Of Use. Everything happens with click of button & NO manual intervention is required.
    Starting Price: $10 per user, per month
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    Delska

    Delska

    Delska

    Delska (former DEAC European Data Center & Data Logistics Center) is a carrier-neutral data center and network provider in Northern Europe with 25 years of experience delivering reliable, personalized IT and network solutions in cloud computing, colocation, data security, network, and more. We own five data centers (one under construction, launching in 2025) in Riga and Vilnius, along with points of presence in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. For quick IT infrastructure deployment in Riga, Vilnius and Frankfurt, we have created the self-service myDelska cloud platform. It offers fast, secure, and scalable solutions and, in the summer of 2025, along with the VM management, will also offer bare metal servers. Delska data centers stand out for their energy efficiency, operating at PUE under 1.3 and powered entirely by green energy. Our upcoming Tier III-certified, 10 MW data center in Riga will exemplify green construction.
    Starting Price: €10
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    ZSvirt

    ZSvirt

    ZStack

    ZSvirt is an enterprise-grade virtualization platform backed by ZStack, built for teams that want performance without being locked into a single vendor. Lightweight yet highly scalable, it runs everything from high-performance homelabs to hyperscale infrastructure—giving users full freedom to deploy, migrate, and grow on your own terms. As a proven VMware VSphere replacement, ZSvirt keeps migration simple and costs predictable, so users can get enterprise reliability, security, and control without the licensing burden. That is why 1,000+ enterprises already trust ZSvirt.
    Starting Price: Free
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    OS-Easy E-VDI

    OS-Easy E-VDI

    OS-Easy Cloud

    In order to improve education information technology, school leaders would like to adopt OS-Easy cloud desktop (E-VDI) in their new build computer lab. Abandoned the traditional PC to realize computer desktop centralized management, it can save much cost in maintenance, investment, and power consumption. In the Fourth Middle School, implement 80OS-Easy E-VDI cloud desktops in the classroom, and use all-in-one (AIO) as terminal devices. Then deploy win7 teaching desktops, common software and OS-Easy Interactive Teaching System for every desktop on server, and use a teaching PC as the console for interactive teaching. In E-VDI, terminal devices are only used for displaying desktop screen and transmitting keyboard & mouse signals, all data is stored in servers for centralized management and big data management. All the desktops actually run in the servers, therefore, we can maintain all thin AIO terminal by managing server.
    Starting Price: $120 one-time payment
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    Scale Computing Platform
    SC//Platform brings faster time to value in the data center, in the distributed enterprise, and at the edge. Scale Computing Platform brings simplicity, high availability and scalability together, replacing the existing infrastructure and providing high availability for running VMs in a single, easy-to-manage platform. Run your applications in a fully integrated platform. Regardless of your hardware requirements, the same innovative software and simple user interface give you the power to run infrastructure efficiently at the edge. Eliminate mundane management tasks and save the valuable time of IT administrators. The simplicity of SC//Platform directly impacts IT with higher productivity and lower costs. Plan the perfect future by not predicting it. Simply mix and match old and new hardware and applications on the same infrastructure for a future-proof environment that can scale up or down as needed.
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    Hive Fabric
    HiveIO Delivers the Most Advanced Virtualization Platform for VDI. Period. The only solution to deliver an entire Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, tightly integrated into a single product. For many organizations considering VDI, Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop seems like a great option at first glance. However, there are several questions you should ask before making a quick decision. This whitepaper will explore several key considerations when determining if WVD is the best choice for your team. HiveIO’s free community edition is intelligent virtualization software that give you the ability to create 5 virtual machines on a single host. See how Hive Fabric enables your remote workforce in a secure fashion -- at a fraction of the cost of other VDI options. Using swarm theory, intelligently utilize resources and scale your infrastructure.
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    Softchoice

    Softchoice

    Softchoice

    VMware Enterprise Licensing Agreement (ELA). Simplify software asset management (SAM) for VMware. Make the most of your VMware investments. Even the most advanced IT department may struggle to procure, deploy and manage thousands of enterprise VMware assets. Navigating the negotiation and renewal process only adds time and complexity. Without a deep understanding of VMware licensing programs, terms and conditions, it’s easy to fall behind – and risk overspending. A VMware enterprise licensing agreement (ELA) simplifies licensing and reduces costs. With enterprise-wide coverage and 3-year terms, it frees IT resources from time-consuming licensing tasks. Working with Softchoice ensures you get the best value from your ELA. Make the most of your VMware investments. Right-size your SAM strategy. Enterprise software agreements have made it much more cost-effective to acquire the technology that powers your business.
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    everRun

    everRun

    Marathon Technologies

    Most companies today have a variety of mixed workloads, with different levels of business criticality. The smartest organizations are sizing and designing their IT infrastructure to match the availability requirements of their applications, and paying only for what they need. Fault-tolerant systems for those applications that must work 24/7/365. High availability systems where up to 4 hours of downtime could be acceptable. everRun simplifies the process of meeting your changing availability requirements. A highly versatile, yet affordable and continuously available software solution, everRun , combined with industry-standard x86 systems, quickly and easily protects your virtualized data and workloads. Use everRun to quickly and cost-effectively deliver the levels of continuous availability you need, when and where you need it.
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    dinCloud

    dinCloud

    dinCloud

    dinCloud is a Cloud Services Provider (CSP) that helps organizations rapidly migrate to the cloud through a strong network of Value Added Resellers (VARs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Each customer’s hosted private cloud offers hosted workspaces and cloud infrastructure that the customer controls through direct and open access. dinCloud’s subscription-based services are tailored to fit a range of business models resulting in reduced cost, enhanced security, control, and productivity.
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    Clonetab

    Clonetab

    Clonetab

    For ERPs like Oracle e-Business Suite, PeopleSoft & Databases Clonetab is the only software which can virtualize and provide true end-to-end on-demand clones of ERPs (like Oracle e-Business Suite, PeopleSoft) or databases. It can also provide an integrated solution for virtualization, cloning, Disaster Recovery, Backups and Oracle EBS Snapshots. Clonetab engines – Deeply aware of ERP Applications, not just Databases The engines are deeply EBS & PS aware and can identify the major releases (e.g. R12.1, R12.2) and patchset levels like AD, TXK and executes the clone commands accordingly. The platform provides options to retain EBS/PS specific options like profile option retention, Concurrent/Process scheduler setups retention, EBS users with responsibilities retention, Database links, Directories retention, workflows setups and many more options, resulting in a true end-to-end ERP clone.
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