Understand exactly what you mean and if you can do that then yes it's
the logical method. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to run
two PC's though and in that case either trying to do it the 'Linux
way' or investigating Virtual OS's is the alternative.

FWIW - I don't see much, if any, of a performance hit running WinXP in
Virtual Box, well unless I load WinXP and Ubuntu up too much :-)

MB> My Ubuntu machine does Linux things, my doze machine does doze
MB> things, and ne'er the twain shall meet.