Vagrant With Vmware ((free)) -

When testing antivirus, EDR agents, or kernel modules, VMware’s hypervisor-level isolation is superior to containers. Vagrant allows the tester to provision a clean Windows 10 or RHEL 8 VM, install the agent, run exploit simulations, and destroy the VM—all scripted.

Create a new directory for your project and navigate to it in your terminal or command prompt. Then, run the following command to create a new Vagrant project: vagrant with vmware

VMware Workstation Pro supports up to 128GB RAM and 32 virtual CPUs per VM. VirtualBox’s performance degrades steeply beyond 8 vCPUs. For data engineers testing Apache Spark locally, VMware is the only viable option. When testing antivirus, EDR agents, or kernel modules,

The partnership of Vagrant and VMware remains the "heavy lift" solution—when you need the fidelity of real operating systems, the performance of enterprise virtualization, and the reproducibility of code, nothing else matches. Then, run the following command to create a