

Oracle VM VirtualBox, or just VirtualBox as it is popularly called, is full-blown virtualisation software typically meant for the x86 architecture.

And the best part is that Qemu is open source software. It lets you run Windows programs on your Linux machine, as well as execute guest code directly on host devices.

Qemu can be used both as a machine emulator and as virtualisation software. Before comparing these, let’s first look at each of them in isolation. However, in this article, we will focus on four popular options - Qemu, VirtualBox, VMware Player and Parallels Workstation. And talking about virtualisation products for Linux devices, the options are plenty.
