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Due to some reasons outside of my influence I am not allowed to use VirtualBox anymore on this machine (Windows 10 host ).
I am very pleased how it is working, but unfortunately this will come to an end.

Is there an alternative solution, which is also free and can use the .vdi from my vm? or maybe the equivalent .vhd or vmdk ?

Thank you in advance and kind regards!

If the reason is that you intend to enable Hyper-v, then only Hyper-v clients will run well (ish).

no, that is not the reason , but I will have a look how the mentioned tool can be installed.

Please let us know the reason, and we might be able to help.

it is a licensing matter , which is not technical , it is imposed by the company

If it is the issue of the personal use license, that only applies to the Extension Pack. VirtualBox itself and the Guest Additions are covered by GPLv3. So if you can live without USB in VMs (which is quite practical), then you need not be affected by the PUEL.

And returning to the original question, I do not know of any virtualization platform that is free but comes with anything other than a GPL license, or something more restrictive.

harald123 wrote:Is there an alternative solution

harald123 wrote:it is imposed by the company

This is not a problem you can solve. Your company has to solve it. If your work requires VMs and your company says you cannot use Virtualbox anymore, then you can't work anymore. Your boss and the powers that be have to provide you the tools that the company lawyers authorize.

You could web-search all day (hint*) and still not find anything the lawyers will be happy with. If your boss wants you to gather a list, web-search and gather a list. The company will have to decide which one to use.

FWIW your company is probably not using Home licenses for their Windows 10, and the next level up, Pro, and higher have a built-in hypervisor that we usually tell folks to turn off to get Virtualbox to run.

(* web-search is your friend: that's the best way to find the answer to your question rather than asking us what other hypervisor to use, as we tend to be somewhat Virtualbox-centric around here for some strange reason )

thank you for the answers.
yes, the original question is looking for an alternative, as I am nt able to influence these decision, although t sounds unfair.

Yeah, you can never tell what drives corporate... Some lawyer gets a bug in his/her ear and the whole world has to come down.

good news is that oracle meanwhile agreed to allow VBox usage without extension pack, so , until licensing conditions change, it is possible to further use the software.

harald123 wrote:good news is that oracle meanwhile agreed to allow VBox usage without extension pack

"Meanwhile agreed"? I already told you above that this was the case, i.e. that the VirtualBox app (sans extension pack) is licensed using GPLv3.

So it doesn't sound like Oracle agreed anything, they just referred you to info you already had.