that looks like it. well i did my install from the vmware site so i would check there. IIRC my vs of vmware was a tarball so you should have no problem getting it installed and running on slack.

wow, that sounds really promising. so i just might be able to break free of MS then

Is anything like what i'm saying in the works?

Actually, on large-scale mainframes, the systems perform 'partitioning' (different from disk partitioning) where memory, cpus, disks, network interfaces, and other resources are grouped up for each operating system. The system has a 'service processor' that handles all this and runs a small embedded OS.

I don't know of anything that runs different OSes at the same time totally independantly (doesn't mean it doesn't exist - just that I haven't heard of it!). All this virtualization stuff requires some "host OS" to virtualize the others. If the host OS crashes, so do all the other little virtualizations.

What I think you're asking for is basically two toally seperate computers. And I think this would be best implemented by ... tada ... two seperate computers! Trying to make one group of hardware run imdependant OSes at the same time would probably cost a bundle of money. It would be a toy - but not financially sound. Virtualization is one thing, running independant OSes is another.

I do have 2 PCs, and use a KVM, but I wouldn't like to have this set up at home due to space contraints.

I guess all I can do is wait and see.