Yes it will work great except for the support for the switches (1900,
2900, etc). You can also use the version for Windows.
As far as the IOS goes you will need to have a support contract with Cisco to download the image. The other possible avenues are finding an IOS image are via a P2P network (i.e.
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or using an application called IOS Hunter.
Good Luck!
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