Thank you all for a most enlightening discussion. I had not considered using multiple VMs running on a central host to emulate desktop workstations. This application may be of considerable benefit to us as we are constrained by our federal government to use a Java based web app written so that it can only use the MicroSoft Java VM, since discontinued. Many of the other points made respecting VM employment were useful to discover as well. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3