Jan Wieck <JanWieck@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I can't even find the same hardware I bought "last year". That's one of the > reasons why I use VMware on my laptop. It has a hardware abstraction layer that > presents default XVGA and Soundblaster cards etc. to the guest OS. When I buy a > new laptop, I just install VMware on the new thing, copy over the virtual > machines and fire them up. They don't even notice that they run on entirely > different hardware. How does that help? You still need to get VMWare's host OS working with the new hardware. -- greg