I'm just buttering you up because someday I may need help from you! Keep up the
posting. It will be good to hear how you are making out with your VM and
Mastercook. I got it installed but it is not working for me, yet. I get a
cryptic error that the program [sic] cannot run with an active debugger in
memory. I have never seen that before. Other programmes work great.

I have got Gourmet to install and run and it does say it imports Mastercook
files, but since you now have Mastercook working via the VM that is unneeded. I
will give it a try as I am the cook in our family and have lots of recipes. I
have in the past just printed to pdf which is so easy with Linux.