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Quickemu Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to quickemu
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distrobox
Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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winapps
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.
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OSX-KVM
Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore + Monterey + Ventura + Sonoma support now! Only commercial (paid) support is available now to avoid spammy issues. No Mac system is required.
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SaaSHub
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cassowary
Run Windows Applications on Linux as if they are native, Use linux applications to launch files files located in windows vm without needing to install applications on vm. With easy to use configuration GUI
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bauh
Graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Debian and Arch packages (including AUR), Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications
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OneClick-macOS-Simple-KVM
Tools to set up a easy, quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM. Works on Linux AND Windows.
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Docker-OSX
Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers.
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virter
Virter is a command line tool for simple creation and cloning of virtual machines based on libvirt
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SaaSHub
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NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better quickemu alternative or higher similarity.
quickemu discussion
quickemu reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of quickemu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-19.
- Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs
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virt-compose
quickemu: It doesn't support automated installations
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Proxmox VE: Import Wizard for Migrating VMware ESXi VMs
https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
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How to run macOS on Linux (without too much hassle) [video]
Tl;Dr use quickemu: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
There's also quickgui to help with launching VMs: https://github.com/quickgui/quickgui
(I've been using it for annual chores on windows)
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Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
[2] https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/blob/0c8e1a5205...
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Simulate an Ubuntu-like VM inside macOS
Multipass is pretty clutch for trivial VMs on MacOs for sure. I use it for a bunch of ssh jump boxes running vpns to different sites. The macOS build does not support custom images (lest not without [some truly insane hacks](https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1260#issuecomm...) , which doesn’t really matter for what I use it for but it is kind of a bummer. If you need something with a little more grunt but don’t want to go full blown with writing your own QEMU tooling or fussing with something like UTM or Parallels, [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu) is a really nice qemu wrapper with sane defaults that can expose a whole lot of power if you need it.
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Possible downsides or issues with this solution?
Also: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/issues/88
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Thinking of purchasing a 4080 laptop and replacing W11 with KDE plasma
Overall, don't be afraid to switch distro (use Ventoy, load a few ISOs just in case), try to make sure you have an easy way of backing up your stuff (be it with a separate /home partition, or like I do with storing everything important in a separate drive and then using symlink to make it 'appear' in their 'default' places), and you can always use VM in a pinch (consult this guide or use quickemu or gnome-boxes)
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Wanting to ditch windows 10 in favor of linux
In case some things you do absolutely needs Windows, keep this guide for setting up VM in mind, or use quickemu's GUI.
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DistroSea- Test drive Linux distros online
VM will be shutdown automatically when it's inactive for a while. I will eventually add more distros going forward. Most distro isos are downloaded using the quickget script from the wonderful quickemu project. You may directly contribute to the upstream project to get the distro added to DistroSea.
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
www.influxdata.com | 14 Jun 2025
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