VirtualBollocks.

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Current geek toy is VirtualBox, which is a usable-quality (unlike QEMU or Bochs) virtual machine (so you can run another computer inside your computer) that happens to be GPLv2 free software. And so happens to be in Ubuntu. And its arse is nothing like as fat as VMware's.

You need to hack /etc/group around and the Windows drivers are proprietary (but then, so is Windows). But Windows 2000 runs relatively efficiently. I can play MP3s in the virtual machine over the network from the house server better than I can in KDE. o_0

So now I just have to work out what on earth I would actually use this crawling horror for.

(May I just say that anyone who ever, EVER suggests Linux is painful should be forced to install Windows 2000 or XP and get all the updates and drivers installed and working by hand. Three hours of download install reboot download install reboot.)