You can still run Vista as a guest OS in vmware or vpc, just install without a key and do not activate. That way you can run a test scenario and get your results and then delete the files.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2074570,00.asp
One concern worth noting relates to license and activation features. The
licenses for the Home *Basic and Home Premium editions don't let you run Vista
inside a virtual machine, and stricter product activation features will actually
disable Vista installations that Microsoft deems not genuine.