>I got an email from a new customer that "Windows XP VM you requested is built and online". VM is, of course, virtual machine. I have not yet worked with a Virtual Machine and I don't want to show my ignorance to the customer. So my question is, when I go to their site to do the installation of my VFP and ASP.NET applications, what will I be dealing with in terms of user interface? Will this XP VM box look to me just like any other XP machine? That is, will I be able to go to Windows Explorer and create folders, copy files? Go to IIS and create a Virtual Directory?
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>Thank you in advance for any help.

As long as you have the rights on the virtual machine, you should be able to do anything you could do on a physical machine (aside from break hardware).

You'll be working on it through Remote Desktop or similar remote control package. It will appear just like any other machine.