I don't know whether VMWare is popular and used by Ubuntu users since I come from Windows.
It would be helpful to establish whether people running Ubuntu 22.04 and VMWare 17 are able to boot from Windows ISOs in order to set up the guest VM.
I know that there are other virtualisation products popular with Ubuntu community but would like avoid having to port over VMs I've accumulated over the years (Windows 3.1, etc).
Thanks