>>>But if they are accessing the same dataset, would that not work to show contention?
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>>Okay, I ran the same program from my 3rd workstation and opened a set of screens for a particular record. Then, I went to the Virtual Machine on this computer (Vista) ran the same program opening the same screens/record and it worked as it's supposed to.
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>>Next, I tried doing the same thing using the host on this computer and I got errors when opening the screen regardless of the record selected.
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>>So, this tells me you can't be accessing the same database using two different Virtual Machines on the same computer at the same time.
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>Ok, just so I understood, you could use the host and a vm on the same dataset, but not two vms?

No. I guess I should have said two instances on the same computer at the same time. This would be 2 vm's, or 1 vm and host.