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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Hawkmoon on February 14, 2024, 07:50:09 AM
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Can someone point me to an explanation or tutorial for total dummies on how to set up a virtual machine in Windows 10? I want to test some programs (pardon me -- "apps") and I don't want to clutter up my registry or risk contaminating my work computer.
TIA
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Download VMWare
https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-player.html
It's almost completely self explanatory is it's use.
The only thing that may throw you is regaining main sys cursor control. (Alt-Control)
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Can someone point me to an explanation or tutorial for total dummies on how to set up a virtual machine in Windows 10? I want to test some programs (pardon me -- "apps") and I don't want to clutter up my registry or risk contaminating my work computer.
TIA
Win 10 Home or Pro?
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Win 10 Home or Pro?
I think VMWare will work in either while the MS ver requires Pro
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I forgot about that, yeah you need pro
for HyperV
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for HyperV
You beat my edit.
Early morning brain fart. After I hit post I went wait a minute.
I would personally recommend VMWare over Hyper-V.
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VirtualBox is also very easy to use, and free.
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VirtualBox is also very easy to use, and free.
That's the one I use. Once you install it and hit "new", it's pretty much a dummy's guide to installing an OS. Following all the defaults is fine for a first time user, and once you learn more, you can do installs that tweak defaults like memory and virtual hard drive allocations.
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You beat my edit.
Early morning brain fart. After I hit post I went wait a minute.
I would personally recommend VMWare over Hyper-V.
I'm more familiar personally with Hyper-V and Virtualbox, but whatever.
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My experience with Hyper-V was from a number of years ago and it was quite limited at the time IIRC in only allowing you to install windows XP to run older software Appears they've improved it greatly since.
May have to take another look.
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My experience with Hyper-V was from a number of years ago and it was quite limited at the time IIRC in only allowing you to install windows XP to run older software Appears they've improved it greatly since.
May have to take another look.
I prefer the paid version of VMWare for servers, but Hyper-V is actually a pretty decent hypervisor. I've used it professionally to run virtualized server instances as well as to run Linux on a Windows machine.
It has been years since I've used VirtualBox because of corruption issues I had with it.
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Win 10 Home or Pro?
Windows 10 Pro 22H2
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My experience with Hyper-V was from a number of years ago and it was quite limited at the time IIRC in only allowing you to install windows XP to run older software Appears they've improved it greatly since.
May have to take another look.
Win 7 had a built in virtual XP environment for running older stuff. Is that what you're thinking of. (Yes, that was pretty limited.)
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Win 7 had a built in virtual XP environment for running older stuff. Is that what you're thinking of. (Yes, that was pretty limited.)
Maybe, been awhile. But I seem to remember it being called Hyper-V, could be Biden memory
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Maybe, been awhile. But I seem to remember it being called Hyper-V, could be Biden memory
Windows 7 XP mode, is what the interwebz is telling me. https://archive.org/details/windows-xp-mode_20200907 (https://archive.org/details/windows-xp-mode_20200907) I remember having to use it for a couple things.