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   JK>-> I had no problems building a OS/2 Warp 3 virtual machine from the   
   JK>-> CDROM. The CDROM emulator under VM Workstation worked fine.  One   
   JK>-> of the big advantages of virtualization is abstracting away the   
   JK>-> underlying hardware.  I can now move my OS/2 virtual machine to   
   JK>-> any hardware machine I want.  Right now it's running as 1 of 6   
   JK>-> virtual machines on a Windows 2008 R2 server.   
      
   JK>VMware Workstation is OK for testing and experimentation, but poor   
   JK>for performance. In my experience, Virtualbox is faster. I've got a   
   JK>Windows 2000 VM running on a 64 bit Windows 7 vbox host, and the   
   JK>network speed is close to the hardware maximum. It never ran that   
   JK>fast with VMware.   
      
   You may very well be right.  All of the VMs I have running on my 2008 R2   
   server are low usage VMs so they run fine for my uses.  VM Workstation    
   performance has gotten better.  If I was really concerned about    
   performance I'd likely just use a physical machine.  All virtualization    
   technology is going to have some overhead.   
      
      
   Jeff    
      
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