I have seen several posts about not liking "dual boot". I tried and I have to
say I did not like it either. I have since tried the VirtualBox and I love what
I have seen so far. Initially I installed VBX on a laptop running Vista as the
host OS. I installed ubuntu 8.10 as the guest OS. The experience was painless
and simple and the VBX is downloadable from http://www.virtualbox.org/.

What I like about it is you can have both (multiple) OS running at the same
time, you don't have to stop one and re-boot to get to the other one. They also
have a seamless mode where you can have multiple windows from both OS's open on
your desktop at the same time.I don't have many hours at the console yet but I
like what I have seen.


I have since reformatted my laptop to make the ubuntu 9.04 my host. I will
probably install VBX and then make Vista the guest.