Easiest (free) way to get VM hosting Windows OS, on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

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Published on 2010-05-25T14:09:29Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 14:11 UTC
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I'm a software developer and my workstation is running Win7 Ultimate, 64bit. I want to run a virtual PC on which I can deploy and run the web-software I create, as a virtual web-server PC. I want the VM to also be Windows as that's what I know, the version isn't too important but on that PC I want to run things like MySQL, TomCat, etc. I see VMWare make 'Player', also I see VirtualBox and I know MS also have solutions too, which I've heard good things about.

Does it make much difference which I use as far as creating & using VMs? Or are they all pretty similar?

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