VMware Server does not yet support Windows 7, but that doesn't mean you have to wait for a new release. When creating a new virtual machine, pick either Windows Vista 32 bit or Windows Vista 64 bit instead. Downloading the ISO file from MSDN Subscriber Download, placing this file in one of the data stores and mounting the image into the virtual CD drive is the easiest way to get the setup running.

Visual FoxPro maintains a reference counter for every object. Whenever a reference to an object is stored in a variable or property, the reference counter is incremented by one. When the same property or variable is filled with a different value, or when it goes of scope, Visual FoxPro decrements the counter by one. Visual FoxPro releases the object once the counter reaches zero.

After using VMWare for various purposes for many, many years now, I've moved my development environment to virtual machines two years ago. These are mostly Windows XP and Windows Vista clients with around 1 GB of RAM. I stored and executed them on my main development laptop. While using the laptop provided various advantages one disadvantage became more and more prevalent: Notebook hard drives simply can't deal very well with multiple requests at the same time.

VMWare Server 2 has significant changes user interface-wise compared to the first version of the free VMWare Server product. The previous version (which itself is the successor of GSX server) provided access to the server and virtual machines through the VMWare Server Console. The Server Console could be replaced by Virtual Center 1.4, provided you had a license.