How to Set Up a Virtual Machine for Free and get it done yourself. This post will teach you how to set up a virtual machine for free. There are plenty of reasons to run a virtual machine.
The first, and most compelling, is that you want to play: Maybe there are some other operating system you want to dabble with (cough Linux cough), but you don’t want to deal with installing another hard drive, partitioning your existing drive, or setting up your system a different way.