Pablo Chacin, on Self-organizing Thoughts has found the solution to all his problems in the form of a VirtualBox virtual machine!

After recently buying a Toshiba Satellite M100-184 with Windows XP home installed in Spanish, he found it difficult to install the XP Pro in English. Similarly he found it hard to install openSUSE, a limitation as he uses Linux as a primary development platform.

Eventually Pablo Chacin had a breakthrough as he decided to try creating a virtual machine on top of XP.

He thinks that soon all manufactures will use virtualization layers and it will become standard on laptops of the future. To see exactly what Pablo did and to share your opinion on whether this is the future, follow the link here to his blog.