A few questions about 10.2 and/or VMWare 5.x and/or MS Virtual PC

I just got 10.2 up and running under VMWare 5.5.3 using XP Pro as a host.

A few questions for you wizards if you don't mind:

1. It seems that XGL isn't supported on VMWare as of yet - at least from
what I've read on the VMWare forums - has anyone had any success with this
or could you give me some pointers on some things to try to
perhaps get it to work?

2. Regarding the above question, does MS Virtual PC do a better job at
this?

3. I've got another box dual booting with W2K and Ubuntu 6.10, but I"m
thinking of wiping that entirely and just loading 10.2 on it, but it's
only got an old ATI Rage Pro video card and 384 megs of RAM - will 10.2
suck on it and will XGL run at all?

4. At some point in this lifetime, I'd like to give Windoze the heave ho
once and for all, but I've got apps I just can't leave behind (proprietary
stuff like ham radio and other comm gear software/Zire apps/etc.) - are
the above options (and maybe MS Virtual Server) pretty much what I've got
as far as setting this with both OS's without doing the dual boot merry
go round?

5.Am I missing something or is the bottom line that some apps (like
Azureus/Java) won't be able to be installed with Yast2?

6. Is there a way to point Yast2 at multiple FTP sites, etc. to get
different lists of installable apps?

Any help on any of this would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

cat
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