Boxes is a great way to spin up virtual machines on Linux. ... If you'd rather take the command-line approach, open a terminal window and issue one of the following commands.

Image: DragonImages, Getty Images/iStockphoto. Multipass is still one of my favorite virtual machine systems. With this command-line tool, I can very quickly spin up a virtual instance of Ubuntu ...

This Linux project wants to save your old PC from the scrapheap when Windows 10 support ends. ... We used the command line to install KVM, ... the kernel-based virtual machine.

If you work with Linux, or you just want to test drive the OS, you can use Hyper-V to create a virtual machine with the distro you like alongside Windows 10.