well there are a few advantages of VMWare, it takes up less memory than a dual boot, since while it may think you have a 4Gig drive, if you only put 2 Gig of data on it, it will only take up 2 Gig on your REAL hard drive. Also, you can use windows and linux simultaneously, also, if windows crashes, it only crashes the virtual machine, and you do not need to reboot, because you are still in linux, just restart the program (which has not crashed, only windows crashes, not VMWare, as i am led to believe).
[ May 02, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]