On Thu, 10 May 2007, Michael Kohne wrote: > Look at VMWare. The VMWare server product is free at the moment and > allows you to setup as many VMs as you want. It allows the VM to have > access to network resources through a sort of 'virtual NIC' concept > which has worked well for me - it even lets the VM get it's own IP on > the network, even going so far as to allow the VM to do DHCP and get > an address that way. It should work no matter what the underlying > network truly is. (Note that the VM doesn't actually have control of > the network card - windows does, and VMWare does stuff underneath to > make it all look right to the VM). > > VMWare also lets the VM get to the CD or DVD-rom drive, or lets you > pretend an iso is a real disc. VMWare seems to have many flavor, tersely described. Which specific VMWare product are you referring to here? Dwight