Hi, Please, this is not a troll, although some people may take it as such... I was wondering if anyone here gave a thought about using VMWare for testing purposes (for Dapper, specifically). Of course, VMWare is a commercial piece of software, but given the availability of the free VMWare player, I wondered if it would be a good idea to have pre-built Dapper images available as VMWare player files. These images would facilitate testing and evaluation of Dapper. Based on my limited experience, I also believe that VMWare player performs better than the LiveCD. Then some tests could be easily performed; for example, installing and removing packages at will. There are obviously two problems with this idea: 1) It does not exercise the hardware, as the VM hardware is uniform. For some situations this is actually an advantage because it removes one potential source for problems; 2) The packager would need to have a copy of VMWare Workstation in order to be able to generate the player images. This may or not turn out to be a problem though. (In fact there are recipes/hacks on how to build an image with the player, but I guess that's not exactly within the spirit of the player's license). Does the idea make sense? -- Carlos Ribeiro Consultoria em Projetos blog: <a href="http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com">http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com</a> blog: <a href="http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com"> http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com</a> mail: <a href="mailto:carribeiro@gmail.com">carribeiro@gmail.com</a> mail: <a href="mailto:carribeiro@yahoo.com">carribeiro@yahoo.com</a>