>>>I thought vmware had free version for the desktop, but I couldn't find it.
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>>The VMWare player was free - you needed the paid edition to create the machines. At one point they had a free Beta available for a server version, which actually had the same features as the desktop paid version. I used that for a long time before I started using Microsoft Virtual PC.
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>Can you give a quick compare, other than cost now, between VMWare and MS Virtual PC? Which did you prefer?

I liked VMWare because of the advanced features (snapshots, etc). VPC might have that, but I haven't had the need to use it. I think VPC is free, while VMWare isn't.