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VMWare Workstation Pro - The most popular virtual machine software


VMWare Workstation Pro is a powerful virtualization software that allows you to run multiple operating systems on a single physical machine. It is widely used for testing, development, and production environments.

Price: Free

Avaible Platforms:

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For macOS see

How to install on Windows

Execute the installer

Once installed and restarted your pc, you can open VMWare, click on File -> New Virtual Machine

You will have to select the installation disc, that can be throgh a real disc, by selecting the drive letter, an iso file or you can choose set the iso in another time

Now VMWare can automatically detect the os from the iso or if you choosed to not using and installation disc, you can select the OS to install. If you want to install macOS see here how to enable the macOS option

Now you'll have to create the virtual disk, you can chiise the size, VMWare assigns automatically the size of the disk in base of the os you selected

The VM creation is complete. If you want to set the amount of GB of RAM and/or the CPU cores to virtualize, you have to go to the VM settings

Once you booted and installed the OS, from the VMWare menu select VM -> Install VMWare Tools, this will mount a disk on your os with drivers for make the VM works

How to install on Linux

TODO

How to enable macOS option