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You can use any of the following to create a Virtual Envirnoment<br />
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Virtual PC - <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/" rel="ugc">http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/</a>&nbsp;(Free)<br />
Vurtual Box - <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/" rel="ugc">https://www.virtualbox.org/</a>&nbsp;(Free)<br />
VMWare - <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/overview.html" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/overview.html</a>&nbsp;(30day Trial)
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You can use any of the following to create a Virtual Envirnoment

Virtual PC - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/ [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/] (Free)
Vurtual Box - https://www.virtualbox.org/ [https://www.virtualbox.org/] (Free)
VMWare - http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/overview.html [http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/overview.html] (30day Trial)

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Please visit the link below.<br />
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Referred link :<br />
<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/virtual-pc-2007.aspx" rel="ugc">http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/virtual-pc-2007.aspx</a>
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Please visit the link below.

Referred link :
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/virtual-pc-2007.aspx [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/virtual-pc-2007.aspx]

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By the way, Hyper-V is a MUCH faster Type 1 virtualization platform unlike all the options available for Win7 (they're all slower type 2)
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By the way, Hyper-V is a MUCH faster Type 1 virtualization platform unlike all the options available for Win7 (they're all slower type 2)

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I need to test a software running on Windows Server 2008. <br />
I have a Windows 7 PC. I do not want to erase Windows 7 and replace it with Windows 2008. Can I virtualize 2008 on 7?<br />
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Thanks!
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I need to test a software running on Windows Server 2008. 
I have a Windows 7 PC. I do not want to erase Windows 7 and replace it with Windows 2008. Can I virtualize 2008 on 7?

Thanks!

How can I virtualize Win2K8 server on a Win7 PC?

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.