But given the headaches and time loss why not go with the ones that are easy to work with?
are there any free virtual machines to run windows xp/vista on os x?
something similar to vmware fusion or parallels, except free.
i am looking at VirtualBox and Bochs but i was wondering if any one here had suggestions.

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