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by pm2222 1343 days ago
What’s the alternative for host on windows?
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VirtualBox is cross-platform; runs on Linux, Mac, Windows. Images are portable. As a sibling notes, the Windows built-in is Hyper-V. Or if you don’t like your money, VMWare.
There's a free version of VMWare, though I don't know what features it lacks.
The free player is what earlier on was the normal version of Fusion. So you only lack the professional features like connect to a vSphere host, have the network editor and a few other smaller issues.

See the Compare tab at [0] for a complete list.

edit: Oh.. and if you meant VMware Workstation Player then see this list [1]

[0] https://www.vmware.com/products/fusion.html

[1] https://store-us.vmware.com/compare_workstation

Hyper-V?
Hyper-V doesn’t support USB
It supports pass through of some hardware, but it needs to be configured through Powershell.