Very often you have the requirement to support multiple OS platforms, or if it is a Web app - multiple Web browser types. For this reason, in order to make a real test case, you need to have clean installations of all those OSs with no additional software or no more software that is actually needed by specification. However, sometimes you can't host multiple OS versions on one HDD, and even if you can, chances are that you won't use all of these distributions on daily basis, but rather only while running these system, integration or basic functional testing scenarios. One solution that I've used in this regards is Virtual PC which proved to be ideal and lightweight but very powerful. You may have different OS as images on your HDD (or DVDs in my case) and whenever you say need Windows 2003 with SP1, just take out the image and run the Virtual PC. Simple and very convenient.
Today I figured that a new verion of Virtual PC has been pushed out - Virtal PC 2007, which now supports Windows Vista natively. Take it for a spin from here.
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