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The best virtual machine tools for Windows: Run a PC inside your PC Whether for personal use or business deployment, there's very capable VM software to meet your needs.

Want to try Windows 11 risk-free? Use Hyper-V to create a virtual machine where you can test the new operating system without losing access to your "real" PC. I've got step-by-step instructions here.

The Sandbox in Windows 11 gives you an isolated and temporary virtual machine to run things without affecting your core OS environment.

Adding more disk space to virtual machines is important to keep systems running properly and can be accomplished using Microsoft Server Hyper-V with either Hyper-V Manager or Failover Cluster Manager.

Android and Windows are totally different operating systems. But that doesn't mean they can't work together on the same machine.

If you can't run Windows 11 on your PC, then you might want to try it on a virtual machine. Here's how to install Windows 11 on a VM.

If VirtualBox can't overwrite the machine folder, navigate to the existing path and delete the existing folder or avoid creating the VM folder in the Download location.