Best way to set up a completely virtualized workstation

Best way to set up a completely virtualized workstation

I was going to put a type 1 hypervisor (specifically Hyper-V Server 2008 R2) on my computer, but these must be managed remotely, which I am unable to do. I need something that can bootstrap itself; i.e., install and manage VMs from within the host itself. Running VMware Workstation on a Windows 7 host seems like a waste of resources if I am never going to touch the host, except to install/manage VMs.

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"You could go for a basic Linux install of some flavour, X (and a window manager of somesort ), VMware Server, and Firefox (to run the VMware console). A setup similar to this would fit under 2 GB, and would cost next to nothing, or a similar setup sans Firefox with VirtualBox.

VMware Server is pretty much meant for this. VirtualBox does well enough, and has better snapshot tools, I think. Using a workstation OS for this seems overkill when you can build around your needs."