hey gusy- I thought I would give vmware a shot- so I installed it on my win2k3 sp1 box. Upon installation, I got this error : "warning 25301. IIS configuration failed. You will have to configure the vmware site manually."
Other than this, I got windows 2k3 installed into the vm just fine, and it seems to work without error. But I do need to ascertain, whether or not the above installation error holds any significance.
By the way, I was installing/reinstalling earlier in the day to try and get rid of the error, and managed to render my computer unbootable. Luckily, I use first defense isr and had just updated my snapshot, so I quickly recovered my system.
Also, to make the virtual machine useful, i'm going need to be able to share files between the host and guest machines, and after reading the forums, I understand that this must be done with network sharing-which I have no clue how to set up.
If anyone can give me some pointers, advice, etc, I'd be appreciative.