Regarding he basic version, I wonder if it means: You "shouldn't" use it in a VM...or does it mean: You "it won't work" in a VM.... Hmmmmmmm...
on the other side of the fence, there are ZERO versions of OS X that you can run in parallels, so at least Vista has something going for it. oh what I would give for an OS X virtual machine.....yummy. And yeah, i'd PAY for that.
. On the other side of the other side of the fence, Linux allows you to do whatever you want. Imagine that, whatever YOU want. .