> VMware is expansive and slow.

It may be a bit expensive, but in my experience it is definitely not slow!

I've been using VMware for a couple of weeks now to run Windows and
the Office suite on my old PentiumII-366 laptop, running
NetBSD-1.5V. Sofar I have been extremely pleased with how well it
works. Even fullscreen mode works fine, despite what the NetBSD readme
said.

Cheers,

        -- Urban

P.S. If you try VMware, make sure that you install the special SVGA
driver that comes with the "VMware tools" package. It boosted the
graphics performance for me by a factor of 100 or so...