Visual Studio 2012 in a Virtual Machine - windows

I need to use Visual Studio 2012, in a windows virtual machine, and to be able to login using Remote Desktop and MULTIPLES sessions access. (Multiple users (very few) can connect to the same time)
I read this is not possible using win8.
What can I do to gain virtualization benefits ?
Thanks in advance.
Valeria.

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Running a specific edition of visual Studio (Installing two editions of Visual Studio side-by-side)
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I have VS 2013 Community and the installation of VS 2013 Ultimate replace the Community edition. How can I install the Ultimate edition without uninstall the Community edition?
Visual Studio installations use a common base location and each addition you install on top of Professional/Community basically extends the Visual Studio installation to give an integrated environment.
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Boot from a secondary harddrive using the windows Boot Manager.
Use Hyper-V (or VMware or Virtual Box) on your Windows installation and create a virtual machine for either work or personal use of Visual Studio (or create two Virtual machines).
Create a Windows-to-go installation on a USB drive and boot from that.
Host one of your development environments in the cloud, use the Visual Studio images on Azure for example.
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