What is the Best Free Virtual Machine Software for Windows 11? (Hyper-V, VMware, VirtualBox, QEMU)

In a quest to troubleshoot Vegas Pro crashing I played around with different virtual machine software.

[SilentNightx]

Visit my channel about page for PC specs. Also forgot to mention while testing I gave all the VMs half my system.

[vnxcius]

bruh, this video is about vegas pro not VMs

[Allious]

He described all of the problems I have faced with these virtual machines, Thank You!!! so much for making this video I have confirmed why I ran into these issues.

[mal-avcisi]

1:58 the left guy is shanking his head very nicely.

[ThePhrenik]

Glad I found this video. I’m in literally the exact same scenario! I like Vegas because I produce music as well and I’m installing a VM to see if it stops Vegas from crashing, lol. Mine doesn’t even open. Heh, small world

[budaroddy]

I agree with you on the Vegas accesible way to work than other software

[LarsWetendorffNielsen]

The graphic card is properly disabled in the settings because you haven't enabled IOMMU (or VT-d) in your bios.

[macklinegodinho]

Thank you. I started of with Oracles Virtual Box 2 months ago but after watching your video. I tried VMware. It is almost lag free as compared to VB as it uses my second Nvidia GPU, unlike VB it has several limits utilizing GPU. Thank you.

[livyinverse]

I installed Windows 11 on QEMU just fine. Did you use pc-q35 as the target machine type?

[MrXankiller]

thank you for all the test, helped me going forward setting up a Linux machine in windows, I'm more used to Proxmox as a Layer1 Hypervisor but since I want to move out windows as my daily driver I need to test things out

Just a little side note to add about the CPU rendering/encoding at 4:47
While CPU encoding is way slower than GPU, there's also a tradeoff that video editors don't really mention usually: quality
GPU's takes "shortcuts" to encode video to maximize efficiency
I can't post link but you can find nice articles about the subject if you search "GPU vs CPU encoding quality"
That's why movies/Tv shows are encoded from sources by CPU "in the not so legal world ;=)", while streaming is GPU encoded

[PMLyf]

Thanks for the video, probably saved me a few days of testing. Decided to use Hyper V for my server labs and Vbox for my linux labs. If I ever need a windows desktop vm Ill test out vmware.

[yyndsai]

What should I use, VM-Ware or HyperV?? I want to use VM-Ware for the sake of running some C programs and MYSql, will the MySQL data remains despite of me powering off?

[karraralhasan]

I didn't expect this video to be this Great when I clicked on it

[theokkali]

Im using windows 10 and I am still unsure. VirtualBox sucks but I am afraid of trying any other ones.

[dogbunns]

I'm honestly a little embarrassed at the way VirtualBox performed. I've been using VirtualBox from back when it was Sun Microsystems. The vram being limited to 256 was always a huge downside. With a different graphics controller you could only bump it up to a max of 512. Even changing the vram in the config file for the VM wouldn't actually override the 256/512 cap.

[digitaldood]

Is this a video about DAW's or VM's?

[devadakshanvenkatesan]

I have a mid spec laptop and i want to install a Virtual machine on my Laptop to just use chrome browser for proctored exam
My lap Specs :-
i7 8th Gen
8gb Ram
1TB HDD
AMD Radeon 2GB Graphics + Intel graphics
And I want to install a smooth Virtual machine just for chrome/edge browsing (Windows 10) so which Software would be a great option for me ?

[seth-bullock]

I thought this video was going to be about virtual machines? Not some video-audio editor. Fail!

[dudemetoo]

I will have to disagree with your outlook on Hyper-V. I work full time from home - as a system engineer - supporting thousands of servers, most of them Virtual servers in a VM environment - some Hyper-V, Citrix, and Nutanix. I use VMware desktop run my Work PC from my highly spec'ed home PC, (so I can goof off and play games during my down time, while keeping my work virtual work environment running on VMware. This said... My license for Vmware workstation is about to expire and I didn't want to spend another $200 bucks for a new one - so I loaded up Hyper-V onmy desktop and created a new Work PC and joined to my work's DC. And y ou know what? I am blown away. The version of Hyper-V on Win 11 Pro with appropriate resources runs smooth, better than my Vmware Workstation 17.5 ever has. I had 24 gigs of Ram (out of my 64 Gigs on the host) and 6 cores dedicated to my VMware work PC and it was slow booting up, slow to do a snapshot if I needed one, slow to Win install updates, the Audio and mike (for Team Calls) was really bad and madeweird sounds others could hear in meetings, and my VM would randomly lock up. But with my Hyper-V set up (only dedicated 16GBs of Ram) it runs as smooth as if it was on it's own bare metal - and it's already part of Win 11 Pro. Hyper-V just to be "crap" but that was a long time ago, I am happy to see it improved as well as it has. For my Home use Hyper-V has replaced my Vmware Workstation. That said Process intensive software usually runs best on a beef'ed up VM or on bare metal. Using Vegas in not an ideal environment to test with. As to VirtualBox, it's free, it's ok if you don't have Hyper-V, but wouldn't use it in a real production environment and as to QEMU, I have never tried.

[fmkid]

This not a Virtual machine tutorial, this video is for the promotion of Vegas Pro, wtf