Hello, >im trying to find a place that i can do all the job of patching, >hacking and testing kernel without fear of dangering my >personal/desktop system. vmware, it's free now, and I have found it easy to use and setup. I think you need a minimum of 256M of memory set aside for it. You can snapshot also, which I haven't used, but should allow you to bring your server back to a know state. Jolynn -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/