Linux-Windows Simulcast

After three plus decades in technology, I am still amazed every day by the advances being made. One of those bleeding-edge advances is virtualization. I have been toying with the idea of moving 100% to Linux but am still tied to the Gate$ Dynasty by toys that I use daily (like Slingbox). With the VMware Player and a Fedora Core 5 Virtual Appliance, I am currently watching Law & Order: Criminal Intent on one screen and updating with yum my FC5 on the other. Yes, I am running an external 17" LCD monitor and draping my desktop to 2048 x 764 across it and the laptop screen. Add to that the multiple desktops under FC5 and I have one hell of a lot of computing real estate! I have the Virtual Appliance staged on a network attached, 200 GB hard drive so I can bring it up on any machine in the house. My eventual plan is to add the VMware Server component and buy the real VMware Workstation and build a Windows XP Pro Appliance so that I can get back to use the Windows toys I need while running Fedora as the real machine. Bottom line is that for the time being (read: until the dead presidents becomes available), I will have the best of both worlds to pump up my development work, plus have my old WIndows toys and all the new Linux ones that am becoming enamoured with, like Stellarium and all the UCAR meteorology tools!