Finally someone did the great step :) Bink.nu reports: A simple performance comparison between two well-known "virtualization" software packages, both commercial: Virtual PC 2004 and VM Ware Workstation 4.0. Both virtual machines were configured with a 1024x768x32 desktop resolution, WIndows 98 SE and 256 MB RAM. The test system hardware is as follows: AMD XP 2600+ (1.92GHz), 333MHz FSB, 512k L2 cache (Barton) nForce2 Ultra400 Based board (Abit NF7-S 2.0) 1024 MB RAM, DDR 333MHz 40GB WD hard disk GeForce 4 MX, 64MB DDR AGP video card Windows XP, Service Pack 1 Here the interesting comparison!