Thanks Dave.

I need to get a new proc anyway, I have a Celeron running 2003 and its not

enough for modern os's.

I will look into HyperV as I need a proc.

Maybe win 8.1 as the windows server. I have that on all other machines and I

do not need expensive server software.

Al

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Al,

I run Windows 7 as base with Vmware supporting 4 servers at home. Windows 8,

8.1, exchange and Linux on a 16Gb machine with i3 processor and all the VM's

run no problem. The sevret if you do it this way is to make the underlying

supporting O/S a virgin install and of course you have no need to do any

updates to it as you will never use it in anger.

As I said, you can do away with Windows or Linux as the base if you use

VCentre (was free and still may be) or HyperV (free) but I find the ease of

having Win7 underlying is more convenient if a little less efficient.

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