Comparison of application virtualization software

This comparison of Application Virtual Machines lists some of the common software virtual machines that implement the concept of Application Virtualization, typically for the purpose allowing application binaries to be portably run on many different computer architectures and operating systems. The application is usually run on the computer using an interpreter or Just In Time compilation.

Application Virtual Machines

Virtual machine	Languages	Comments
Common Language Runtime	C#, Visual Basic .NET, J#, Managed C++	reference implementation by Microsoft
Corn concurrent runtime machine	Corn language
Forth virtual machine	Forth
Glulx	Glulx, Z-code
Inferno	Limbo
Java virtual machine	Java	reference implementation by Sun
Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM)	currently C, C++, Stacker
Lua
Macromedia Flash Player	SWF	interactive web authoring tool
MMIX	MMIXAL
Neko virtual machine	currently Neko and haXe
O-code machine	BCPL
P-Code_machine	Pascal
Parrot	Perl 6, and others experimentally
Perl virtual machine	Perl
Portable.NET	C#, Visual Basic .NET, J#, Managed C++
ScummVM	Scumm	computer game engine
SECD machine	ISWIM, Lispkit_Lisp
Smalltalk virtual machine	Smalltalk
Sqlite virtual machine	Sqlite opcodes
Squeak virtual machine	Squeak
TrueType virtual machine	TrueType	font rendering engine
Valgrind	x86/x86_64 binaries	checking of memory acesses and leaks under Linux
vx32 virtual machine		application-level virtualization for native code
Waba		Virtual machine for small devices, similar to Java
Warren Abstract Machine	Prolog
Z-machine	Z-Code

See also

• Virtualization