Since you (and probably a good bit of the lug as well) have a lot more experience with virtual machines than I, what is your opinion of qemu? I've been playing with it but it seems kind of slow to me. Bill A. > Many of you will possibly make use of VirtualBox, an open source and > free for personal and academic use virtual machine that runs on Mac, > Linux, and Windows. > > I haven't yet played with it to see how it compares to VMWare server, > but I've heard from a couple friends that say it is considerably > faster during the installation process and feels comparable during > normal usage. > > http://www.virtualbox.org/ > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL >