I have read much about VPC2004 and VMWare and I have persionalle tested VPC2004 and it was pretty slow.

So i want to try VMWare now but i dont know which version should i try?

http://www.vmware.com/download/ - I'm confused about all of the versions and the homepage doesn't include much info about any of the versions.

So, which version do you use and how does it work? Does it keep crashing? Is it actually faster than VPC2004? Which version should i try to install windows 98 and to play old DOS games and to use old win apps? Is there MIDI support in VMWare cause VPC2004 doesn't have one.

I dont need any complicated server version.

It's definately better. I would just use version 5 of VMware Virtualmachine.

If it is to play game, I recommend the following instead, much much better, and free

DosBox

Great compatibility for games

You want to use VMware Workstation version 5. The GSX and ESX versions are for servers.

While GSX will run on WIN XP it would be kinda costly for what your wanting to do.