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11 minutes ago, Space646 said:

Yes, windows. I shouldn't have any hardware liminations, I use a ryzen 3700x, 48GB ram. I also heard about VMware. What do you think is better?

If you're on Windows, the two big options are Hyper-V and VirtualBox. Both of them have their pros and cons. If you're gonna use Windows in a VM, I'd use Hyper-V. If you're gonna use Linux, use VirtualBox.

 

That said, Windows isn't a good virtualization host. If you are doing anything more than spinning up a quick VM to test something, you should probably transition your host machine to Linux and use Redhat KVM and QEMU. Something like VirtManager is a good way to manage everything, and has a ton more features in comparison to anything on Windows.

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Hello, I wanted to know what free VM software to use?

Maybe VirtualBox? I don't know

Do you have any sugestions?

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Hosted, on Windows ? Pretty much only VirtualBox, yes.

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Just now, Juular said:

Hosted, on Windows ? Pretty much only VirtualBox, yes.

Yes, windows. I shouldn't have any hardware liminations, I use a ryzen 3700x, 48GB ram. I also heard about VMware. What do you think is better?

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You could also try QEMU or VMware

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QEMU is more advanced but it is good

My Laptop: A MacBook Air 

My Desktop: Don’t have one 

My Phone: An Honor 8s (although I don’t recommend it)

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My Console: A Regular PS4

My Tablet: A Huawei Mediapad m5 

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So your options are:

  • Vmware Player (free, but a bit gimped with some features
  • Virtualbox (FOSS, prety easy to start with and can get more advanced)
  • QEMU (CLi based, pretty advanced)

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11 minutes ago, Space646 said:

Yes, windows. I shouldn't have any hardware liminations, I use a ryzen 3700x, 48GB ram. I also heard about VMware. What do you think is better?

If you're on Windows, the two big options are Hyper-V and VirtualBox. Both of them have their pros and cons. If you're gonna use Windows in a VM, I'd use Hyper-V. If you're gonna use Linux, use VirtualBox.

 

That said, Windows isn't a good virtualization host. If you are doing anything more than spinning up a quick VM to test something, you should probably transition your host machine to Linux and use Redhat KVM and QEMU. Something like VirtManager is a good way to manage everything, and has a ton more features in comparison to anything on Windows.

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5 minutes ago, J-from-Nucleon said:

So your options are:

  • Vmware Workstation (free, but a bit gimped with some features
  • Virtualbox (FOSS, prety easy to start with and can get more advanced)
  • QEMU (CLi based, pretty advanced)

Player is the free and gimped version, workstation is the full fat license only version.

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21 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Player is the free and gimped version, workstation is the full fat license only version.

Right.

I Still get those two mixed up. Thanks.

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Ok, I use Hyper-V. In the "Quick VM maker" it's downloading windows 11 enterprise, but it's 18,49GB. I'll need to wait...

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