VMware is a good program to use for something like this. However VMware is kinda pricey unless you know where to get it for free or cheap..lol

to find more information about VMware itself.
I actually have a VMware setup with windows XP already on it i may consider parting with relativly cheap. The VMware is completely legit, Mysql and Everything needed to run a server is already on it. Let me think about it.