Get Visual Studio Community 2013 for Free

What's the best option for getting Windows and running it in a VM? I have a Mac but would like to try Visual Studio.

VirtualBox, but you will still need to buy Windows with license.

If you just want to try, test VMs are available here:

https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools

Important info:

Q: Who can use Visual Studio Community? A: Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community: Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.

Here’s how Visual Studio Community can be used in organizations: An unlimited number of users within an organization can use Visual Studio Community for the following scenarios: in a classroom learning environment, for academic research, or for contributing to open source projects. For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1 Million US Dollars in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above.

Or wait for Windows 10 when it'll be free for personal users.