I've had very good luck with virtualbox. It has a windows version too. It worked out of the box with a few sound issues that vmware choked on, and here's the best part, it's GPL, free as in freedom and beer. Vmware is good, but not free as in freedom. And vmware uses oss, not the more modern alsa. Virtualbox also has a "seamless" mode, that let the few windows applications float on my usual kde desktop. It's damn cool. Handled sound and networking with no extra effort on my part. And, I saved the vm on a shared partition, and was able to use the same windows2000 vm with both kubuntu AND with Vista hosts. Very cool, no hassle stuff.
Good luck...
David
Oh, and it was MUCH faster.....free...freedom, works out of the box, and much faster than vmware. And kick ass features. Give it a shot, I'll bet you like it.
David
Last edited by budword; 01-22-2008 at 08:21 AM.
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