I have been trying to find time to spend with whidbey, so I decided to resurrect my plan for a vm on my laptop with whidbey.  After a couple hours of installing, I'm almost ready to go. 

One thing that really bugs me about vpc, though, is when the window doesn't have priority vpc decides it should drop its usage to like nothing.  Although I see the reasoning behind this, I think this should be controlled via a set of options, as I'm sure it must be in virtual server.  This would at least let me use the other 10 or 15% of resources that are left for doing things like typing this post.

So after a couple minutes of thinking, I saved the state of my vm, rpc'd back into my box (thanks 2k3), and started up my VM again.  Result, VM taking all the resources it wants, while I'm free to use the rest.  Of course theres the overhead of the second desktop, but the overhead seems pretty minimal.