Performance on a virtualized Windows?

[AnyOldName3]

Also, just FYI VMWare Player is free, and from what I can tell, the only times it wouldn't be sufficient were if you were trying to run a company's entire network through it or install OSX as the guest, as that requires a feature not in Player (although once you've done that you can boot a VM with OSX installed in Player, so if you really wanted an OSX VM you could use the 30-day trial of the paid version, then revert back to the free version after you'd done the setup).