It was a really good idea to set up VMs for myself in the HP workstation and leave all the main OS and its apps to my wife.

Not only can she never again blame me for causing problems to *her* system by me adding codecs and odd apps (even though she mostly was right!) but I also get the chance to really experience virtualization as a full-time way of working rather than to use it only in addition to the host computer for the occasional test systems.

So far I have set up a VM with Vista and I've just completed setting up a VM with Windows Server 2008 (Full); Applications Server and (what else?!) WSS 3.0. I've even tried accessing that WSS 3.0 from the Vista VM and it works like a dream.

For now the only snag (and it's a minor one) is that I first need to boot my wife's XPPro before I can start VM Workstation and boot my Vista. I.e. it's a time problem. But oh, the joys of having only my own stuff there and everything where I left it.

If you have enough memory and a fast enough processor (and disk space) it's definately better than all other methods of dividing your machine (imo).