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I can't recall seeing anyone use VMware Workstation in the last … half decade at least: and only for sure about 9 years ago.

I've used VirtualBox for local virtualization for at least a dozen years – maybe longer.

And I've virtualized at least all of the following in it (on all kinds of underlying hardware):

• Knoppix rebuild env
• Haiku
• DOS 5
• DOS 6.22 + Windows 3.11
• Windows 95
• Windows XP
• FreeBSD (several versions)
• OpenSuSE
• Minix
• OpenBSD
• Ubuntu (going back to at least 10.04, all the way up to 20.04)
• CentOS (back to 3.x through 7.x)
• RHEL (4 & 5)
• Slackware
• Windows 2008
• Windows 2012
• Windows 2016
• Windows 10

VirtualBox is incredibly stable – so any boot issues you're having, sad to say, sound like they must be a configuration problem.

What resources have you assigned to your Win10 VM?

Is your host OS 32-bit?

Have you enabled virtualization extensions in your BIOS?