You can use Vagrant and VirtualBox to quickly bring up Virtual Machines on your Mac, Windows, or Linux desktop.
Download Vagrant
Download VirtualBox
Bring up a Virtual Machine
These are the commands to run in a terminal window (on your Mac for example)
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cd
mkdir centos7
cd centos7
vagrant init centos/7
# [you will see some output from vagrant]
vagrant up
# [you will see some more output from vagrant]
vagrant ssh |
The 'vagrant ssh' command will get you logged into the new VM. You can see the Red Hat version and become root like this:
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[vagrant@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core)
[vagrant@localhost ~]$ sudo -i
[root@localhost ~]# |