You've by now heard of the FREE VMPlayer from VMWare that allows you to run any VMDK virtual machine without purchasing VMWare but the VM community has ramped up and created several PRE-Built virtual machines for the VMPlayer (that also work on Workstation, GSX and ESX) and they are now available for download: See: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vm/community.html You'll find AST Linx, Fedora, Dam* Smaill Linux and more! In case you haven't played with the FREE VmwarePlayer check it out at: http://www.vmware.com/download/player/ VMWare has also made available a free Prebuilt Browser Appliance virtual machine that you can download and use. Be sure to check out my new virtualization areas on Thinhelp.com which was just launched...... Links http://www.thinhelp.com/links_showsub.asp?cat_id=9&cat=Virtualization Downloads http://www.thinhelp.com/dl_showsub.asp?cat_id=9&cat=Virtualization Forums http://www.thinhelp.com/fhome.asp Regards, Jim Kenzig http://www.thinhelp.com "The mother of all SBC downloads sites"