A virtual machine isn’t very helpful without an operating system to install on it. And for that, you might have to get a little creative.

Here's how to download and install the Windows 8 Developer Preview into a virtual machine on your PC.

Trying the developer preview out in a virtual machine is a smart way to go, since you can do a clean install and play around without worrying about messing up your computer. All three of the ...

You can install Windows 11 as a virtual machine using the free VMware Workstation Player or Oracle VM VirtualBox.

After you're done creating the new virtual machine, it's time to install Windows 10 by going to Settings > Storage and selecting the empty IDE drive.

Installing SteamOS on a Virtual PC With a little tweaking, it's possible to get SteamOS running on a virtual machine.

Finally, we can start up our virtual machine and install SteamOS. Frankly, this process is a bit confusing and involves a fair amount of manual tweaking as you go.

With a virtual machine, you can dabble in all kinds of alternative operating systems, like installing Windows 10 inside Linux. Here's how.

Install Windows 8.1 preview on VirtualBox Start by setting up a new machine in VirtualBox and click the button to show the machine description. Give the machine a name.