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Table 1 List of common desktop virtual machines for Windows, LINUX and Mac OS X operating systems.

From: Software platform virtualization in chemistry research and university teaching

Host OS

Virtualization Software

WINDOWS as Guest OS

LINUX as Guest OS

Mac OS X as Guest OS

Windows OS

    
 

VMware Workstation

Yes

yes

no

 

Microsoft Virtual PC

Yes

yes

no

 

SUN Virtual BOX

Yes

yes

no

LINUX OS

    
 

VMWare

Yes

yes

no

 

Citrix XEN

Yes

yes

no

 

Virtual Iron

Yes

yes

no

MAC OS

    
 

VMWare Fusion

Yes

yes

yes*

 

Parallels Server

Yes

yes

yes*

  1. Mac OS X can in principle run on any host, but it is not officially supported. A star (*) denotes license issues (January 2009).