However, I couldn't live with Vista taking up 29GB of my hd, when I wasn't using it for anything else.
I know how that goes. I actually have XP running in my VMs, in part because I've ended up with a zillion copies of it over the years (I got free software packs and downloads courtesy of my school, and rationalized by the fact that it's in my tuition anyway). Granted, I gave it 40Gigs of space, but that's because it's also doubling as my development environment for .NET apps when I need them (and thanks to Sun's little feature in their disk creation/allocation system, it doesn't actually take up that much space until it's actually using that much space, so the drive file is only about a quarter of that size). Of course, I also have an entire TB drive dedicated to holding data, so even 40GB is pretty trivial.
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I know how that goes. I actually have XP running in my VMs, in part because I've ended up with a zillion copies of it over the years (I got free software packs and downloads courtesy of my school, and rationalized by the fact that it's in my tuition anyway). Granted, I gave it 40Gigs of space, but that's because it's also doubling as my development environment for .NET apps when I need them (and thanks to Sun's little feature in their disk creation/allocation system, it doesn't actually take up that much space until it's actually using that much space, so the drive file is only about a quarter of that size). Of course, I also have an entire TB drive dedicated to holding data, so even 40GB is pretty trivial.