>>>>Do you think it would work well running two instances of an EXE to test for record contentions and locking, etc?
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>>>For that it's simpler to just run two EXEs (or two instances of VFP) on the same OS....
>>>Regards,
>>>Viv
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>>We need to be able to check over a network and I thought that VM might provide that, but it looks like not.
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>Viv is right. You can run more than one instance of the exe in a single host OR a single vm with your database on a network, or not.

I was hoping to emulate a true multi-user network environment on the laptop. That does not look like an option.