[wellylug] virtualisation options?

[Rimu Atkinson]

Hi all

I need to have a windows development environment around for the 
occasional piece of maintenance work from back when I developed on 
windows. My old windows box is limping along and can't keep it up much 
longer.

So I'm interested in setting up a virtual machine to stick XP on. I'm 
running Ubuntu on a 2 core laptop with only 1 Gig of ram. I'll probably 
need to increase that...

In the past I used VMWare but was a bit unimpressed that I needed to 
semi-reinstall it whenever I updated my kernel. Is there anything out 
there that is

    * Reasonably easy to install
    * Just works out of the box, more or less
    * Free. OSS a bonus
    * Can use an external usb hard disk for the virtual drive to live on
    * Doesn't sink it's teeth into my kernel and throw a fit whenever I
      upgrade it

Advice, directions?

Cheers guys

Rimu

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