You're right about the speed and memory. The best way to improve Vista and VM performance is more RAM.

>Dunno either, but it won't get any simpler
>
>They launch vista - problems - add a VM to it. You'll need fast discs and a lot of memory to have some performance when it runs the VM - I think
>I've done some testing with VMware and I was not impressed by the speed - but I'm not impressed by the speed of disc access either in Vista
>
>That having said, I think new benefits come with a price (= complexity), managed code, security, etc.
>
>We need the new things of course, no way turning the clock back