Linux SL via Virtualization?

I searched through the forums and found nothing recent and not much dealing with the Linux alpha so here's my question. I run Windows (because I need to for RL work) but use VMware on my laptop for development work (Fedora Core). Before everyone jumps on this, I know that the alpha does not work in FC under VMware, courtesy of their very vanilla video drivers. My question is has anyone gotten it to work on any of the other virtualization tools running FC as the guest operating system.

My laptop is the "latest, greatest" and Windows SL runs quite nicely on the Intel 945GM chipset with 128 MB - just would like to be able to give it a shot in Linux... I am willing to try any VMware-type product, too. Also, please discuss "the failures" too... save everybody some time.

I am glad that LL finally decided that Linux people deserve a Second Life!

Thanks!

Wulf

Seeing as SL requires accelerated OpenGL, it is not going to be usable in any currently known VM.

If I wanted to try out another version, I'd rather go for a double boot option. Have you considered that? I mean, usually you wouldn't run SL and do your RL work on the same machine at the same time... do you? Let alone the commitment, there simply isn't enough screen real estate esp. on a laptop.

Apart from that, virtualization does cost some performance... not so very much, VMWare is pretty good at that, but since SL is quite taxing I'd prefer to give it all that's there. Done it a few times already, installing e.g. Suse Linux as a 2nd OS on a Windows machine is usually no hassle at all and does no harm to your existing setup.

Cheers