Published May 3, 2026, 5:30 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar. Having attempted everything from running Hackintosh instances inside virtual machines to running hypervisors within virtualization environments , I’m no stranger to wacky home lab projects. Heck, I’ve tried running Windows 11 as a VM across a bunch of Proxmox nodes, with each experiment teaching me new tweaks to turn a mere virtual machine into something that can run everyday tasks. But now that I’ve been using a virtualized Windows 11 environment for my coding projects, video-editing tasks, and full-fledged remote gaming escapades, I have to admit that my VM is good enough to replace my daily driver.…