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Lightweight VM for windows 7?

I'm looking for some virtualiazation software for windows 7 that can run a Linux guest, can pass though a block device (hard disk) and has networking support.

End game is that I want to serve a disk (unpartitioned, formated to ext4) through samba/cifs back to the windows host, as this machine is dual-boot and I use Linux more than windows, so taking the performance hit of NTFS on linux isn't what I want for this drive. Also don't want a huge resource drain from the VM as it's just going to set in the background doing only the tasks I mentioned.

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