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+1 for VMWare.

If you're on-the-cheap, you may also want to check out VMWare Player and the virtual appliances. I had a Workstation license, but it was from nearly 4 years ago and didn't work with many of the newer Linux distributions (notably Ubuntu). So I downloaded Player and an Ubuntu Gutsy virtual appliance, and was up-and-running in about 5 minutes.



VMWare Server is free and allows you to create new VMs (and comes with the VM addons for various OSes).

It allows you to start up VM at boot time, etc hence the "Server" name.

The drawback is that it installs a bunch of services.

Microsoft's VirtualPC 2007 is (was?) free and more of a single package, but I found VMWare Server to be faster.

VirtualBox is also available and open source.


I've used http://www.easyvmx.com to create new blank machines instead of downloading the appliances and installed my own system from scratch.




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