Thanks Dave

I'm not upset on using Microsoft. After all my work is done on that.

I was wondering about hardware level virtualisation which should mean the

box does it, I think.

The reason for the sudden interest is that net 4.5.1 does not work on server

2003. So I need to update. But I think Linux has more possibilities with

email servers and news groups than exchange, but I would like to do it on

one machine. Neither is a large overload.

Al

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Al,

Virtualisation requires a base operating system to run the "virtualiser" on

for example VMWare. You could run windows 7 as a base machine with VMWare as

a std program and in VMWare spin up a linux box and windows boxes etc that

would run no problem. However, running Windows as the base operating system

isn't the most efficient solution and Linux is best as the OS runs quicker,

not having all the M$ Graphical stuff in it.

With Microsoft HyperV which runs on top of Microsoft Server you can do the

same thing and my experience is that it is quicker and also free but it

keeps you in the M$ camp exclusively!

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