[khedoros1]

> do you install it on personal machines?

Why would I? Those are my machines, and don't have anything to do with my employer or the work I do for them.

> I imagine the common answer is a physical “work-provided” laptop but I’m curious, does anyone run VMs or another solution?

At a couple places, I've had a Windows partition set up for AD password changes/whatever else I ended up needing a Windows machine for, but did most of my work in the Linux install I put in a second partition. I've also just booted a Linux environment in VMWare Workstation.

[fuzzfactor]

If you only have one PC, multibooting or choice of HDD's especially external USB3 enclosures can help a lot to keep things separate and/or isolated.

[khedoros1]

I have several PCs, my personal machines. Those never have anything to do with work.

Employers have always provided their own hardware, which in turn never have anything to do with my personal uses.

Sharing hardware muddles that. It's not like my employer's going to pay for upkeep of my personal hardware, or accept when I take my hardware down for maintenance due to something I did on my own time.

Then again, I've never worked for a startup, or a company that I held any significant equity in. I suppose that the calculus would change in that case.