1.7 VM tips

[Reini Urban]

I'd need an idea how to best setup a VM for cygwin-1.7 testing.
I thought of:
   Get a vmware license,
   use my xp home sp2 installation cd
   and do a blank windows install.

Aren't there cheaper and equally easy options? I only have coLinux, and 
I'm pretty happy with it because its actually faster than Windows.
But a vmware xp inside xp seems pretty slow and expensive to me.

Now I read that VMware Server is free. So it looks pretty good.
But are there better options?
MS VirtualPC, Bochs, Xen, QEMU, or such?

VMX-Builder also sounds nice.
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Reini Urban
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