On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Raymond Norton wrote: > We would like to toy around with virtual desktops and don't want to make > an investment in something like VMware View . Is there an open source > solution that people are happy with? I have run Virtual Box under Ubuntu to run Windows. It worked very well. Just remember to not leave it running indefinitely because it eventually fails, just as Windows always needs a reboot, and it can mess things up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox Mike