In my concurrent programming and operating systems lecture at uni the other day, the lecturer was going on about virtualization. I have read a bit about it in the past but as far as I knew it didn’t really work yet. Well how wrong I was. Our lecturer showed us VM Ware by VNCing from the lecture room computer to his office computer running windows xp, he then booted both windows vista and linux. Anyway of course that has got be buzzing so I found Virtual Box a free virtualization software, thanks for the comparison chart wikipedia. And now I have Ubuntu 7 running off Windows XP. I am currently download all 2.8GB of Fedora 7. Anyway here is a screenshot of my Traffic Simulator running in Java under virtualized linux. I am getting some errors in the console because the java on Ubuntu is not perfect, but it still works the app.