Hi, so I'll be starting SNHUs AS in Computer Science program next week(work pays all tuition and fees).

My primary operating system is Ubuntu. I do have Windows 10 set up in Virtual Box with Visual Studio Community Edition installed. I'm assuming this will suffice for projects they want done in VS, hopefully they don't need any features from paid VS editions.

Outside of Visual Studio, are there any course dependencies on Windows, and is there any worry that running it in a VM would cause issues? Hardware is an i5-7600 with 16GB ram. Upgrading the RAM might be feasible, the CPU would probably be out of budget and the i7-7700 is really the only option without replacing the motherboard too. I currently have 1 core and 4GB ram devoted to the VM when it's running, but I'd feel reasonably comfortable doubling those numbers(and the ram even further if I manage to find the upgrade budget) if needed.

I don't have a viable Mac, best I could do there is my 2008 MacBook and that won't go past El Capitan(which is part of why it's running Kali now).

Are the other VM managers I might want to look into to make this as painless as possible? Needs to be free or very low cost.