Okay, what gives? I just installed FC3 into VMWare v4.5 on an XP host. Man, is it SLOOOOOOOOOW! It took almost 45 minutes just to boot. My configuration is as follows: PIII 1.2 GHz WinXP Pro SP2 512MB with 256MB dedicated to the virtual machine VM hard drive image is 5GB (all allocated) VM hard drive image is on a partition by itself Can someone please explain to me why this is happening and how to get it up to a livable speed. Thanx, Ryan _________________________ Tired of spam? Signup for a FREE SpamJammer.Com account and say goodbye to junk email forever!