It works well except that you have to switch between the operating systems by restarting the system. One way to use the two systems together is to dual boot Windows and Linux. I regularly encourage people to use Linux, and when I give them reasons to switch, I always mention that they can use Windows and Linux together if they’re ‘scared of Linux’. It seems like you could download Win10 and install without a key/activation, with nagging/watermark and some limitations.Ĭreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.This detailed beginner’s guide shows you how to install Windows 10 in VirtualBox on Linux. The VM shall expire on 06/5/19 (I am not sure how often is this VM updated) Option 4: Download Win10 and install without a key Option 3: Windows 10 development environmentĪs of 14 April 2019, there is a virtual machine of Windows 10 Enterprise (Evaluation - VM built in March 2019) bundled with Visual Studio. NOTE: I guess you could create a snapshot on Day 1 (or after setup your environment) and revert back to the Day 1 snapshot when the evaluation expired. You can install Win10 Enterprise evaluation for 90 days. Option 2: Download Win10 Enterprise 90 Days evaluation We recommend setting a snapshot when you first install the virtual machine which you can roll back to later.

These virtual machines expire after 90 days. These are Win7, Win8.1 and Win10 virtual machines for IE/MSEdge testing valid for 90 days trial. Option 1: MSEdge on Win10 Virtual Machine I assume Win10 license only allow a single instance (it probably means I can’t run it in both as my host machine and inside a VM). Can I use my OEM Win10 license on my virtual machine?

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