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I began installing perpetually licensed software in VMs about 15 years ago. When I upgrade my (hypervisor) hardware, the VM still runs just fine. Obviously, a VM wouldn't be a suitable environment for FileZilla.

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> Obviously, a VM wouldn't be a suitable environment for FileZilla.

Why not? VMs can be given access to the host file systems.

Do you sell vms or something? It's absurd to even consider running an entire os in a vm just to use the calculator or the notepad.

The only time it's worthwhile is when you pay thousands of dollars for a license, and don't want to spend on an annual maintenance contract. For example, I've got a ~10 year old IDA Pro license server in an Ubuntu 16.04 VM.

QubesOS would like a word with you. https://www.qubes-os.org/

FileZilla runs fine in a VM

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