Virtualization recommendation

[raz ben yehuda]

I have a linux linux installed and have a vmware guest as windows. I
managed to run wifi & sound this way. 
what is the purpose of your laptop ? 
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 08:53 +0300, David Suna wrote:
> I just bought a new Gateway laptop that comes with Windows Vista (and a 
> free upgrade to Windows 7).  I want to be able to run both Linux (Ubuntu 
> is my preferred distribution) and Windows (Vista for now, Windows 7 in 
> the future) using virtualization.  I have not gotten into virtualization 
> until now so I wanted recommendations about how to go about doing this.  
> >From what I have read so far I have the following options:
> 
> 1. Host on Windows using VMWare (either VMware Player or Workstation)
> 
> 2. Host on Windows using Microsoft Virtual PC
> 
> 3. Host on Linux using VMWare, Xen etc but then I have to deal with 
> installing Windows since the laptop comes with it but does not have 
> separate installation disks
> 
> 
> Recommendations for or against any of the above or information about 
> other options that I left out would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
>