On Tuesday 23 October 2001 11:46 am, you wrote: > I understand vmware allows you to install the guest os in either > a virtual disk (basically a file) or on a raw disk. I'll be installing > Windows 2K as the guest OS. Is it really worth it installing it on a > raw disk vs virtual disk. Pros/cons? > > thx. In the current stable version of VMWare you're limited to a 2gb virtural disk. This can get a little squishy for Windows 2000. But version 3 doesn't have that limitation. It's worth checking out the beta. The USB support is nice. Seems a little faster, and I haven't had any stability problems other than leaving Windows 2000 running inside VMWare for 48 hours. :) Stick with virtural disks unless you have a good reason not to. Once VMWare 3 is released you should be able to grow the size of the virtural disks and extend the volume in Windows 2000.