Evaluating IIS7 with Virtual PC?

Question

I wanna do some local developer tests of IIS 7 but I don't have Windows Vista, 7 or 2008 server - I currently run XP SP3.

I have Virtual PC installed so I can use Microsoft's IE compatibility images - are there any time-limited images that I can use with Virtual PC so I can check out IIS 7?

The IIS 7 "Try it" link points to this page. But the VHS is for Windows Server platforms only I think and I don't want an ISO?

Any advice?

Answer 1

You can download the 180-day trial of Windows Server from that same page.

This will give you a file called an ISO image, which is a complete image of a CD.
After downloading it, you can mount the ISO image in Virtual PC and install Windows Server onto a virtual machine. (You don't need to burn a physical CD)

Answer 2

While it doesn't specify, I would expect this one to run Windows 7. Also, it says that it's for "Virtual PC for Windows 7" but I would be surprised if it didn't run under WinXP. Unfortunately, I don't have any physical WinXP boxes anymore (and I'm not going to try running Virtual PC on a VM - that will probably cause problems itself that will complicate this).