Qemu

I decided to follow some instructions on Qemu virtualisation with Ubuntu.

I had to read part of it carefully but for the most part it was straight forward and a bit of apt-getting later I had Windows XP booting. It is a little slower than VMWare but less mucking around to get going. I am especially curious about trying the seamless virtualisation options. This is technology that Parallels has been hyping for the Mac lately so I'm pleased to see it available in free open source software.