Very much doubt it's anything to do with IE. Any virtual machine should work by installing a genuine copy of the OS and running various services through the host machine. I'm assuming that you have general internet access on the virtual machine? If not, then it's something to do with your VMWare setup. If VM internet access is working, then in theory (  ) it should be irrelevent that it's on a virtual machine and the problem with be program / OS based. For the record, I can run DVDP fine on a VirtualBox machine under a Linux host. Stuart |