Asking suggestion for virtual machine software
The situation is I have a laptop which comes with a factory installed windows vista home edition. I don't have vista installation CD. Periodically I use the laptop build in SW to restore the laptop hard disk back to factory state. This is because junk softwares mess up my laptop. Now, I plan to create a virtual machine on my laptop. And I will install those junk (but must have) softwares into the virtual machine. So that I can deleted all of them easily by removing the virtual machine completely. The process to restore HDD to factory state takes long time. My junk softwares need windows to run but I don't have any windows distribution and don't want to pay M$ for it. I heard vista has feature to create virtual machines. Unfortunately home edition does not seem to have this feature. VMware player seems to require a guest OS to be installed.

Therefore, I am asking for suggestions for a free VM software that can create a VM using my native OS (vista). I just need it to fool some malicious software residence. Any help would be appreciated!
Asking suggestion for virtual machine software
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The situation is I have a laptop which comes with a factory installed windows vista home edition. I don't have vista installation CD. Periodically I use the laptop build in SW to restore the laptop hard disk back to factory state. This is because junk softwares mess up my laptop. Now, I plan to create a virtual machine on my laptop. And I will install those junk (but must have) softwares into the virtual machine. So that I can deleted all of them easily by removing the virtual machine completely. The process to restore HDD to factory state takes long time. My junk softwares need windows to run but I don't have any windows distribution and don't want to pay M$ for it. I heard vista has feature to create virtual machines. Unfortunately home edition does not seem to have this feature. VMware player seems to require a guest OS to be installed.

Therefore, I am asking for suggestions for a free VM software that can create a VM using my native OS (vista). I just need it to fool some malicious software residence. Any help would be appreciated!