HOW TO: Run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper
Why?
Because Dapper was just too Damn reliable… nah, seriously, I need to run Microsoft Visual Studio, and doing so under wine was not going to cut it, and dual booting was going to be a pain, VMWare was not open source so….QEMU to the rescue.
Briefly..
There’s a program called qemu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMU), by Fabrice Bellard.
Basically it makes a virtual PC within your PC with some standard spec’s (NE 2000 network card, Cirrus CLGD 5446 PCI VGA card, etc). The advantage of this is that you’re running the actual OS ! (some may say that is not an advantage…) Mac On Stuff: How to run Windows XP under Ubuntu Dapper