I used the VMWare Converter to generate a guest machine from the
original Windows Server 2003 system on a 700Mhz Pentium box.  I'm
running the result under VMWare Server on a W2k3 system with a 3.6Ghz
Pentium processor.  Other than the expected and documented transition
issues from the conversion (in particular the Ethernet Adapter is
changed so all IP settings have to be reset, but this is trivial - and
actually about the worst issue in the deal - - supposing you already
understand VMWare in general).  The improved performance of the new
setup is quite nice too, but the main motivation for this change was to
get rid of the old equipment.

In short, I believe VMWare and the virtualized environment are no cause
for concern.  A) It's really good stuff.  B) Mailing lists management
and SMTP handling just don't do anything "strange" that would provoke
odd issues.

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I intend to upgrade from 14.5 to 15 on a SuSE Linux server in early  
May. Probably in June, I am looking to migrate LISTSERV to new  
hardware, which will actually be a Red Hat Linux instance on a VM  
Ware virtual machine which will also run Sendmail and Apache. I have  
LISTSERV lite 15 running on that virtual machine now, but its hardly  
been used. Your question reminds me to ask if anyone else is running  
LISTSERV on a similar virtualized environment. If so, how's it  
working out for you?