Those other virtual machine systems (virtualbox and qemu) were the ones I was thinking of, I couldn't say much on them as I haven't tried using them in windows so don't know enough about it. As for the situation with vmware, yes they are as described, but you can solve the spam issues and such like by having an email account specifically for that sort of case (and most of their spam gets caught by spam filters anyway) and just fill in nonsense for other details (considering this I don't know why they bother doing it). As things go, I would not specifically recommend vmware and I certainly would not consider buying their other products, I just mentioned it as an example of the software which can be used, as it is one I have tried in windows. From Michael Whapples
