Looks like he may have disabled new comments some years ago. Maybe he had a spam problem? He’s got some good information!
Have you looked into Hyper-V? Never used it before but it looks like it may be a good native option, even if it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles. Sadly, it only supports back to W7 from the official list.
I can’t remember if I used VMWare or Virtual Box when I was playing with VMs. Didn’t use it for much, just playing about 😛