Virtualization for development and test

Hello,
I was wondering what virtualization technologies other software developers (or Apple) recommend/use for software development? I understand that Mac OS X itself needs to be run on Apple hardware, which means an Xserve or Mac Pro. Aside from purchasing the hardware, what else needs to be done to set up multiple virtual machines for development and testing purposes?
Thanks in advance for any responses.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky

agoretsky wrote:
What about for product support? My employer uses thin client terminals to provide engineers with access to BSD, Linux, Solaris, Windows, etc... environments hosted on a VM server. I would think doing something similar for OS X would help keep costs down for the support department.
I don't know all the details, and how it would work, but one thing you could look into would be using Net Boot from and OS X Server. The last time I went in to the Apple Store, they were using that. Basically, they hook your computer up via ethernet and boot from an OS on their server that they know is good (no bad third party kexts, strange drivers, and so on).
It looked pretty slick. I don't remember if they could load different OS versions, though. On the other hand, I could see it being a problem, if what you were testing trashed the networking, since it uses ethernet.
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