How to set up virtual PCs with VMware Workstation, a now-free pro tool

VMware Workstation Pro, which used to cost around $250, is now available free of charge. The program outperforms Virtualbox in terms of features, setting options, hardware support, saving and managing snapshots, copying and cloning virtual machines, and network configuration.

The snapshot manager is first class. It can freeze intermediate states of a virtual computer, interleave them, and later return to the desired status. In conjunction with the powerful cloning of machines and the...