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Virtual machine environments for testing Windows software installer?

I am developing a Windows forms application in Visual Studio under Windows 7 Ultimate and am currently building a deployment/installer package for the application. Besides my Windows 7 development machine, I also have a Windows Server 2008 R2 server on my LAN.

It seems like having a virtual machine on which I can test my installer would be a good idea, but I have no experience using Hyper-V, VMware, or Virtual Box.

For testing the installer, would it be better to create a virtual machine on my Win 7 development PC or on the Windows 2008 R2 server? And what virtualization software would be simplest to set up?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 626

Answers (1)

kofemann
kofemann

Reputation: 4423

I am quite happy with VirtualBox on my PC. Free, supports snapshots ( easy to roll back to last good known state) and performance quite OK.

Upvotes: 1

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