What's better Ghost or Virtualization?

What's better Ghost or Virtualization? "I've a test environment with several machines using a mix of OSs and MS softwares, several developers use the machines on site and remotely. Recently I'd to downsize it to just one machine."
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Guest [Entry]

"Virtualization is definitely the answer here. If you want multiple OSes at once, you have to go the virtualization route. It would be very time consuming to have to continually ghost, or even reboot a machine to boot into a new OS.

The only drawback I see is machine resources. Get a big machine with lots of memory if you plan on using several virtual OSes. VMWare Server is a nice product that will allow you to setup the VMs and allow users to access them remotely as well (and its free!)."

Guest [Entry]

In your situation I'd go with virtualization. It gives you the ability to run multiple images on one physical machine, and also to spin up new instances as needed. This can be very useful for testing.