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Qemu vs Parallels: What are the differences?
Qemu: A generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. When used as a machine emulator, it can run OSes and programs made for one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC). By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performance When used as a virtualizer, it achieves near native performance by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU. it supports virtualization when executing under the Xen hypervisor or using the KVM kernel module in Linux. When using KVM, it can virtualize x86, server and embedded PowerPC, 64-bit POWER, S390, 32-bit and 64-bit ARM, and MIPS guests.; Parallels: Lets you run Windows applications like they were made for your Mac. It is an application and desktop virtualization software vendor that offers management and delivery platforms for Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows desktop deployments.
Qemu and Parallels can be categorized as "Virtualization Platform" tools.
Some of the features offered by Qemu are:
- machine emulator and virtualizer
- dynamic translation
On the other hand, Parallels provides the following key features:
- Secure connection
- Universal file manager
- Connection to Mac or PC
Pros of Parallels
- Lightens your wallet1
Pros of Qemu
- Performance1
- Easy to use1
- Free1