[Hoot Gibson]

I recently installed VirtualBox on my Windows 7 desktop. So far, I have set up two virtual servers, one for Fedora 17 64-bit and the other for Fedora 17 32-bit. I plan to buy another Windows license and create a third Windows server.

VirtualBox is a free application that allows you to set up all sorts of virtual desktop machines and servers. What I am going to be using it for is to set up a virtual intranet to test some web applications while isolating them from the internet.

You can also install VirtualBox on a Linux computer and create virtual Windows and Linux machines on it. You can turn virtual machines on and off, network them together, or configure them as servers accessible via the web.

For the money - free - VirtualBox is a handy and fairly easy to use application. It is worth much more and is a great tool to learn about setting up servers and networking them together.