Hi Guy,

Thank you very much for your input.

>Hi Dmitry,
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>Yes. As others have said, VMWare lets you run multiple [virtual] operating systems on the same hardware. As long as one of those virtual machines is Windows [presumeably Win2000, XP or Svr2003], then VFP apps will run inside that virtual machine.
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>The VFP application will have no awareness that it is running on a virtual machine versus a standard PC configuration.
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>I've been running VFP applications inside of virtual machines for desktop apps and server-based apps for quite a while now.
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>In fact, for development, I no longer run Windows XP or Vista on real hardware. I always use Linux (or Mac) as my base operating system and run my XP and Vista machines as VMWare virtual machines on top of one of those.
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>I do this because I've been trying to move toward the mindset of developing software that will run on all three platforms and I want real and practical familiarity with all three O/S environments. I don't want to start a religious argument, but I think the world is going that way (the OS is just becoming a run-time environment for your stuff). Windows has a stronghold and MS will fight hard to remain dominant. But the alternatives are getting better and better.
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>Back to the main point, VFP has no clue anything is different with virtual machines.
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>In fact, I don't think even the Windows operating systems know they're on virtual machines instead of real hardware. I might be wrong on that, but I think it's true.
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>Guy
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