Hello
There is a Pre Installed Environment LiveCD (P.I.E.) that can install Windows XP through LAN.
Linux LiveCD with VMWare is IMPOSSIBLE because VMWare is a commercial product.
Perhaps the LiveCD will include Xen, but AFAIK Windows XP are not compatible with Xen.
"Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems. Xen is Open Source software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. XenoLinux is a fully functional port of Linux, 2.4 and 2.6, running over Xen, for a virtual general purpose Linux server."
http://xen.epiuse.com/xen-faq.txt
Perhaps someday the mature ReactOS, FreeDOS can be ported to Xen.
Alternatives to VMWare:
http://www.hyperos2002.com/07042003/pro ... 4FEproduct
SW-Soft Virtuozzo:
http://www.sw-soft.com/
Plex86 (Linux Only):
http://plex86.sourceforge.net/
>Same partition
Perhaps you can use Netraverse Win4Linux.
This software enable user to run ORIGINAL Windows on top of Linux (NOT emulation).
http://www.netraverse.com/
AFAIK most Linux distros don't support Write access to Windows NTFS partition.
>Faster HW
If you want to run Macintosh PowerPC application, you can do it using Emulators. But the emulation speed on Pentium IV 3.8 GHz is equal to 100 MHz PowerPC!
Perhaps if you use 200 GHz Diamond X86 CPU (temperature: several hundred degree), perhaps you can do PowerPC emulation faster than Dual G5 2.5 GHz! You should use several GB memory caches to feed the data into the CPU.
Today, most high end CPUs energy consumption is for HEAT, NOT for computation.
Intel, AMD plan to release slower CPU with dual core and less "waste of energy".