Hi All,

I have a somewhat theoretical question regarding VMWare and how well it 
isolates itself from the rest of the machine.
I'll explain by way of example.

I have a Windows XP box which is one of my main use machines.  We sometimes 
have friends and relatives over and they like to use this machine to surf 
and play games,etc.  Due to the fact the my nephew likes to run P2P apps 
(Kaza and the like), there's a very high likely hood that this machine will 
get infected with viruses, spyware, etc.

If I load VMWare and create a separate XP session for my newphew to play 
around in, will this prevent the "main" XP installation from becoming 
infected should he download some nasties within his VM session.

If this is the case, one could simply create a separate VM session for each 
person that would use the machine and never have to worry about the main OS 
session being affected.  Is this how it works or am I oversimplifying?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Peter

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