<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> On 11/03/2009 11:00, Philip Stubbs wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:bc9fce50903110400x6022979dw9ee7e7a202fd6a15@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">2009/3/11 Adam Bagnall <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:bagnaj97@googlemail.com"><bagnaj97@googlemail.com></a>: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">As neither sage nor office require 3d acceleration you could run windows in a virtual machine using virtualbox. This would prevent any problems with grub being overwritten and you wouldn't have to reboot to do the windows work. The only caveat is that you need a fair bit of ram (enough for both ubuntu and the windows vm) but that's pretty cheap these days. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I was reading the other day that with a windows client inside virtualbox, 3d support is available. Not sure how complete it is, but worth checking out if that's important. </pre> </blockquote>