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About Quickgui
Quickgui is a desktop virtual machine manager built on top of Quickemu, the command-line tool that creates QEMU virtual machines with sensible defaults. Instead of typing commands, you pick an operating system from a list, let Quickgui download it and create the machine, then start and stop your VMs from a window.
It is written in Flutter and has builds for Linux and macOS, with Nix packaging in the repository. It suits people who want quick test machines for different operating systems without configuring QEMU by hand.
Strengths
- Downloads operating system images and creates VMs from a list
- Graphical control over Quickemu virtual machines
- Linux and macOS builds
Limitations
- Depends on Quickemu and QEMU being installed
- No Windows version
- Fewer settings than a full VM manager
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to download and use.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- The Quickemu project
- Platforms
- macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Quickly spinning up test VMs of different operating systems on Linux or macOS
- Categories
- Virtual machines
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Quickgui
Compare allSoftware that can replace Quickgui for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
GNOME Boxes
A simple GNOME desktop app for creating and running virtual machines on Linux.
GNOME Boxes is an open-source Linux desktop app that downloads and installs common operating systems automatically, without depending on Quickemu, but has no macOS version.
VirtualBox
The free desktop hypervisor most people start with: run Windows, Linux or BSD in a window on the machine you already have.
VirtualBox is an open-source graphical hypervisor for Windows, macOS and Linux with snapshots and shared folders, though you fetch installation images yourself.
Virtual Machine Manager
The standard desktop front end for KVM on Linux, plus the command line tools that go with it.
Virtual Machine Manager is the standard open-source graphical front end for KVM on Linux, with more settings but assuming some libvirt knowledge.
UTM
Runs Windows, Linux and other systems in a virtual machine on a Mac, iPhone or iPad.
UTM gives Mac users an open-source graphical app for Windows, Linux and macOS guests, with emulation of over thirty architectures.
Quickemu
Downloads an operating system and builds a properly configured QEMU virtual machine from one short config file.
Quickemu is the command-line tool Quickgui drives, so switching drops the graphical list in favour of two commands and hand-edited config files.
Multipass
Canonical's tool for launching a fresh Ubuntu virtual machine with one command, on Windows, macOS or Linux.
Multipass launches Ubuntu virtual machines with one command on Windows, macOS or Linux, but focuses on Ubuntu rather than a list of operating systems.
Quickgui as an alternative
Listings that name Quickgui as an alternative.
OSX-KVM
Scripts, OpenCore files and firmware images for running macOS in a QEMU/KVM virtual machine on Linux.
Quickgui adds a graphical front end over Quickemu for downloading operating systems and creating virtual machines, though it is not open source and needs Quickemu installed.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
