Well we are in networking. And if we weren't using virutal machines each of us would need at least 2 seperate computers to use, and the college is to cheap to do that when they can tell you to just use VMWare and then to the two machines are on one physical machine. Plus you can house the Virtual ones all you want and no real harm is done. Very popular for any computer course at my college.

I guess at home I could use three of my computers to do the final and then bring them all in(plus a switch, if I can find a free one), but I want do that even less then I want to do the staying over deal.

As for the 128mb of ram, I have ran that computer as a server with Windows Server 2003 enterprise edition and emulated Playstation games with it(that was with win98 installed, not server2003) without out any real issues. A bit slow and not very pretty graphics, but I can make it through that. It isn't like VMWare runs fast at the college anyways, they use at most 1GHZ processor with 256mb ram, but they are also running Windows XP which seems to slow alot of stuff down.