
If their site thinks you're not on Windows, they'll offer you direct download links to the ISOs valid for 24h. The reason is that if they see you use Windows they'll offer you their downloader EXE, which can only download to drive C: and if it's full (which is usual when using a small SSD drive as the main one) you can't download even if you have a secondary drive with several free TBs, since you can't choose another drive. Though it’s primarily aimed at x86 hosts (which is where the platform excels), VirtualBox has started including experimental support for ARM-based Apple Silicon Mac models in. This includes Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris machines. I used this one for Chrome: (User-Agent Switcher for Chrome) VirtualBox is a completely free virtual machine app that works on a huge range of host platforms. You just have to either use a non-Windows PC (Linux, Mac, Android, whatever.) or use a user-agent spoofer tool so Microsoft's website thinks you're not in Windows.

Price While VirtualBox and VMware are both free, they aren't equally free. There's another option to download the ISOs from Microsoft. For this comparison, we'll be looking at Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.1 and VMware Workstation Player 16.
