I have read threads on this from time to time. Here is my situation: I may soon be in a work situation where I need to setup windows 2012R2 from the ground up. This will be on a VmWare server. I have successfully installed windows server in a vmware workstation environment. Sound with workstation works because I am on the same physical machine and I get speech in the PE disk. How do you or can you get speech durring a install when the install is on a VmWare server? If you can't get speech, how can you use the system? For a bonus, Later I will be asked to setup windows server images in the ec2 cloud. I use the Linux systems there just fine, but can those systems be used? Also, I have a Xen server as well I can use if that works better. I use Xen with multiple types of Unixhish systems and have work arounds to access those systems. If anyone has any experience at all, I would appreciate it. I suspect I will have to do a lot of customizing for this to even work at all. Thanks in advance for any thoughts. -- Kelly Prescott