VMWare Workstation, which you need to create a virtual machine, is NOT free.
The VMWare player is. The O/P would need VMWare Workstation to create/run
his virtual machine.

VirtualPC 2007, which can create a virtual machine - as well as run same, IS
free.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Bob" <Bob@somewhere.usa> wrote in message
news:F6CE512F-DEAF-4F02-ABF2-41170AFEBE83@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> VMWare is much better then VirtualPC and yes its free
>
>
> "P. Di Stolfo" <paolodistolfo********.com> wrote in message
> news:4CD6B0CF-6402-4239-AAB8-D631B2EE3B27@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> Hello,
>>
>> does it have to be VMWare for you? Microsoft VirtualPC 2007 is free and
>> you can - of course - use it for Windows.
>> [url]http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx[/url]
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Paolo Di Stolfo
>>
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>> //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> // [url]http://blog.lysorp.com[/url] - small Windows Blog in German language
>> //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> "Brian R Hastings" <Brian R [email]Hastings@discussions.microsoft.com[/email]> schrieb
>> im Newsbeitrag news:C2699554-94E9-474B-BEFD-59E540824B6C@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I had fried my P4 2.4 GIGHTZ system so I am in the market for a new
>>> computer. I am looking for a new computer looking at the Intel Quad Core
>>> 2.4
>>> "standard sys requirements" that would come with this computer.
>>>
>>> So, I am also a Sysop using Excalibur BBS which was developed under
>>> Windows
>>> 3.1 and 95-8 OS's. So it would use the WOW16Bit subset under windows xp
>>> pro
>>> and is compatible.
>>>
>>> Now for few years now I have been using here and there VMWare mostly for
>>> Linux emulator never had a need for a windows simulation. However, I
>>> started
>>> thinking I know: Scary--
>>>
>>> I would like to know If anyone has attempted to use Vista home
>>> "activated"
>>> software and then used VMware using Windows XP pro "Activated software".
>>> So
>>> then, you of course use Windows XP pro. Please let me know how this
>>> worked
>>> for you? I am quite circus on this. If anyone has worked on this
>>> project I
>>> am wondering what the out come results are.
>>>
>>> Thank you for looking at my Thread:
>>>
>>> Brian Hastings
>>> [email]hastings1977@Verizon.net[/email]
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