VMware, Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif.,a maker of virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, has announced the general availability of VMware Player, a free new product that enables ...

You can then boot the virtual disc in Windows 11 with Virtualbox or Hyper-V as a virtual machine in the window. Use the free Disk2vhd to convert a physical data carrier into a virtual hard disk file.

From the virtual machines' perspective, it's an entirely standalone computer with its own processor, memory, and storage. All of this is done in software, with no extra hardware required.