Best Virtual machine for Win 10 Pro using 3ds max 9

[OldManHammer]

So, as ive been exploring about and enjoying the Linux, i find that the only app im using in my Win 10 install is 3ds max and almost exclusively for my pet projects and not work. (work has decided to upgrade its systems and right after the new year i will be getting a whole new workstation there, sadly with win 11, but the vendor knows what i use it for and is aware of my win 10 preferences n assures me they can set it all up damn near the same interface wise for me, we’ll see. heh) but this means no more work on MY laptop.

Anyways, after seeing it mentioned here n there in my travels thru posts n boards, ive been reading about VM’s, and how ppl are using them to run windows within linux.
The more i read on it the more lost i seem to be getting due to apparently there being about a dozen or so different ones everyone says is either the best or easiest to use.

So, i guess what i am wondering, is would a VM support win 10 pro and 3ds max 9 well enough that i could just do away with my dual boot setup n daily drive the Garuda, with a VM for windows specifically to run 3ds max?
Anyone here with that experience that is willing to share their thoughts on how it went or is going? pros n cons ??
Apologies if in wrong place for this thread.
OMH

[gampel]

Well,
3ds Max is developed only for the Windows OS, and is officially supported only under native Windows (not under emulation).
With KVM/Qemu it can run, but …
if you don´t have a nvidia vgpu …never it will be run.

NVIDIA GPUs for Virtualization

with amd gpu it should work.

also
Use Linux with blender ( that cost of course → nothing )
or install win10 on usb stick is also possible.

[OldManHammer]

sorry late response, got called to an emergancy installjob down in the everglades friday requiring wha we refer o as “in field engineering”

yeah, im already messing about with blender, but imma bee honest, it feels like going backwards from 3ds max.