It will run just fine under VMWare. I am using it right now and it works very fast on my 3Ghz Pentium 4 HP NX9110 Laptop. I wouldn't use the image file on aros archive as it is an old file (I uploaded it :-) ). Instead download the latest .ISO Live CD image from
www.aros.org and install it on the virtual hard drive for VMWare. Network access works too under VMWare.