free virtualization?

[Archer1212]

I have OSX leppord and I am doing some research for work. Currently our software is only for windows and has extremely limited linux support. I have tasked myself to find a good cheap and effective way to get our software to work with OSX.

The company is openeye and we do security DVRs. I want to get our remote software to install and open up. I have tried wine and it didn't work for crap. I would like to try parallels or VM fusion but I dont have the money to do purchase them for testing.

Is there any free software out there that I can use to test and recommend to our customers? and for the record I did try to get the trial version of VM fusion but they did not send me the email.

 

[SuperSubZero]

www.virtualbox.org.

Note that the OS X version is the least "feature complete" of the bunch, and is lacking some useful stuff like different networking options and VT-x.

 

[kmeson]

Both Parallels and VMWare Fusion offer a free 30 day trial.

VMWare Fusion Trial
Parallels Desktop

As for the email not showing, did you try creating a gmail/hotmail/yahoo account? Perhaps it got stuck in a spam filter.

edit:
VirtualBox looks pretty nice. If you try that lets us know how well it worked for you.