I used a very good online tutorial when I set mine up, but I can't seem to find it again. I found this guide (advicesource.org) that seems to be quite complete and sounds exactly like what I did. One change I would make is that it recommends installing vmware player with automatix, but this isn't necessary because it's in the repos. You can just apt-get install vmware-player to install it. It's actually quite easy to set up and very easy to use, as long as you don't forget when you have your windows partition paused in vmware and try and boot it again. Windows doesn't like this very much:) You may also want to check out ubuntuforums.org. Good information and friendly people.
Enjoy.
Not the original poster here, but fwiw vmware player runs my xp partition very well from ubuntu on my laptop. I boot xp in vmware player and maximize it on one face of my beryl desktop cube and watch people do double-takes as I switch from one to the other. Fun.:)
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TrueCrypt (which works in Linux but is a PITA to deal with).
Truecrypt works great in Linux. It's even got a GUI now.
I tried to reply to you and accidentally replied to myself. Go up one level to see it. Sorry. I think I need more coffee this morning!
I used a very good online tutorial when I set mine up, but I can't seem to find it again. I found this guide (advicesource.org) that seems to be quite complete and sounds exactly like what I did. One change I would make is that it recommends installing vmware player with automatix, but this isn't necessary because it's in the repos. You can just apt-get install vmware-player to install it. It's actually quite easy to set up and very easy to use, as long as you don't forget when you have your windows partition paused in vmware and try and boot it again. Windows doesn't like this very much :) You may also want to check out ubuntuforums.org. Good information and friendly people.
Enjoy.
Not the original poster here, but fwiw vmware player runs my xp partition very well from ubuntu on my laptop. I boot xp in vmware player and maximize it on one face of my beryl desktop cube and watch people do double-takes as I switch from one to the other. Fun. :)