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Originally Posted by darkrom
Dual boot or build a new pc. Those are the only real options. VMWARE is nice but not really. Emulation of OS's, especially server OS's, never functions 100% perfect.
There isn't a good reason to install server 2003 on a pc other than to tinker, so tinker away my friend.
Personally I would dual boot if the idea of building a "test dummy" pc seems a bit expensive right now.
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A VM is not emulation. It is the OS running on virtual hardware. Partial or entire production environments are run on ESX servers world wide, my company included. Calling it emulation is pure misconception.
Win2k8 is out but instead you can run a small domain controller of win2k3 on a vm with 512mb of ram, win2k8 is a hog for resources and not really needed if you just want to tinker. Win2k8 wont really roll out as a production server for another year or 2(maybe more).