As far as Vmware is concerned - Very simple - i have a blog for you to have a look at covering all the ins and outs of installing it. you can find my blog at <a href="http://ubuntulondon.wordpress.com">ubuntulondon.wordpress.com </a> - let me know if you have any problems after that. thanks <div>On 22/10/06, stan <<a href="mailto:stanb@panix.com">stanb@panix.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm trying to install enough of vmware on my Ubuntu 6.06 laptop to run a Windows XP vitrual machine. I found: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/fmro5">http://tinyurl.com/fmro5</a>, nut it seems a bit old. I downloaded: VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.tar.gz from the VMware site, and was able to get the installer to run corectly (only if I took all the defaults), up to the point that it wanted a serial number. Is this the wrong package? If not, where do I get a serail number? And once I'm past that hurdle, how do I go about installing XP? -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>