I have been playing around with the demonstration Windows images downloadable from Microsoft just to see how hard it would be to use the OSs they provide. The images are designed for Microsoft Virtual Server, but can be successfully converted to qcow2 and vhdx using qemu-img. QEMU won't boot the images (not a difficult problem, I think) but VMware can. I'll try other free virtualisation systems at some point.
See http://shearer.org/Microsoft_Demo_VMs for my notes so far. -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
