We all love VMware Workstation Player (formerly Player Pro). It’s free for personal use, rock-solid, and runs just about any operating system as a guest.
Or can you?
Better alternative: doesn’t support VMware Player natively, but you can add it as a “custom app” that just launches the installed-on-USB executable. The Realistic Workflow (What I Use) I carry a 256GB USB-C SSD with: portable vmware player
But there’s one annoying problem: