There are numerous reasons someone might need to create a virtual machine, and fortunately in 2024, it's possible to do it well and for free. Major players, including Microsoft, Broadcom/VMWare, and Oracle, all have free software available to create instances of different operating systems on your Windows 11 PC.
It's the latter of those three we're focusing on here. Virtualbox by Oracle is a completely free, open-source, and cross-platform virtual machine tool. It's been around for what feels like eternity, but it's still in active development today and is absolutely one of the best free virtual machine applications around.
