On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Chris McSweeny wrot= e: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:22 PM, John Ferrell w= rote: >> On 12/22/2011 11:28 AM, Herbert Graf wrote: >>> >>> 4. Run XP, or even DOS, in a VM, that way you can take the image with >>> you no matter what machine you are on. >>> >>> TTYL >>> >>> >> I would appreciate any advice on getting started with a VM. Every time I >> start looking I seem to get overwhelmed with confusing choices. I have >> both XP Por and Win 7 Pro available in my shop. > > If you just want to run VMs on your own machine as Herbert suggests, > get VirtualBox. Free software, but very professional standard > (supplied by Oracle/Sun, who developed Solaris and Java). I use it > regularly to test networky stuff with linux VMs. > > Chris ....and in contrast to others' opinions, I've used VMWare Player at work (where we were running full blown VMWare over the network - which did work well) and found it didn't work anywhere near as well as VirtualBox - IIRC it was missing functionality like snapshots. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .