

On the bright side, you can fully test VMware Workstation Pro in a 30-days free trial. On the other hand, you won’t be able to access some advanced features found in Workstation Pro. If you must use it in a commercial environment, you can buy a commercial license for VMware Workstation Player. Available for personal and educational purposes only, it doesn’t have any time restrictions. You can use the virtual machine application from VMware for free, thanks to VMware Workstation Player. As such, you should suspend any Internet activities during its setup. However, you should know that VMware Workstation installs some virtual network drivers, which means that you will be temporarily offline.

The rest of the installation is pretty straightforward and doesn’t take long to finish. A system reboot is required to complete setup if you opt for the driver. In addition to modifying the default setup folder, you can include an enhanced keyboard driver in the installation to ensure better handling for international keyboards and the ones with extra keys.

Perhaps the most obvious one is to purchase multiple PCs and install different OSes. There are a few solutions to deploy multiple operating systems on different platforms.

Pros Run multiple virtual machines on the same PC Drag and drop files between the host and guests Forever-free version available Cons The free version doesn't let you run multiple VMs at once Home › Software › Virtualization › VMware Workstation
