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On 10/19/06, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Other alternative to VMWare would be either QEmu or Xen. QEMU is quite good if you have a bit of power on your system and a load of ram. QEMU is open source as well. There is also an accelerator kernel module (although this is not open source) it *really* helps with speed of a guest operating system. If you do go to a VM test, hardware will not be fully supported as you will be running a "virtual" computer with "virtual" hardware. While the mouse and keyboard will be routed through and the display emulated it can be difficult to get other hardware to work. RS232 is possible, parallel ports are possible. Some USB is possible. It is still however a good way to get to know the distro and poke around and it dosn;t matter what you do inside the VM you will not hurt your main system. -- Robin Cornelius http://www.byteme.org.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html