What is your choice for testing your program in a virtual machine?

Question

When testing our software on several different systems (98-XP-Vista-Seven-Linux-etc), I think the best choice is to use virtualized systems.

What is your choice: VMware, Virtual Box or MS Virtual PC / Server? and why?

Answer 1

We use VMWare here at work. In fact, any VM software that supports snapshots (or a way to save the state of a machine) will work well. Snapshots make testing and rollbacks easier. It can also help if you program, go and modify files to return to the "well known" state.

Answer 2

Virtual boxing is the way to go. It has snapshots and is platform independent (suitable for Mac users who want to test other OSs). And it's free.

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