Microsoft will release new free Windows 11-based virtual machines by the end of each month. Version 2309 is now available in four traditional formats for various virtualization software.

VMware offers a very comprehensive selection of virtualization products, with Fusion for the Apple Mac and Workstation for the PC. Despite the name difference, these two products offer effectively the ...

It is a free virtual machine software and works most of the time. Can I disable Hyper-V services? You can disable the Hyper-V services, but then you will receive errors.

Even though there are various virtual machine tools that you can download and use to create a virtual machine, we decided to go with VMware Workstation which is a free virtual machine tool. We can ...

Microsoft has released a free Windows 10 virtual machine containing Microsoft Edge Legacy and Internet Explorer 11 that you can use for 90 days to test applications or perform other development.

The good news is that UTM offers free virtual machines on Apple Silicon Macs and it can run macOS 26 Tahoe right now—you just need to take a few minutes to set it up.

UTM is one such free app that runs a virtual machine on your Mac to use Windows. While it's excellent, I recently found an even better alternative that fixes the few gripes I had with UTM.

For running virtual machines, whether on Windows, Linux, or Mac, the best option is VMware's Fusion Pro and Workstation Pro tools. Learn more here.

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What you need to know about license keys for running Windows and commercial software in virtual machines.

Microsoft's official free Windows 11 virtual machines have been updated to version 2306. The latest version contains various development tools and the most recent Windows 11 "Moment 3" update.