One of my beefs with VmWare on my main workstation is that it adds virtual networks and some services which slow and bloat the system even if I don't have a VM up and running. Over the weekend I ran into a cool little...well I guess it's a distro...called Portable Ubuntu for Windows. 
It loads as any other Windows app so when you close it, it's gone. No footprint beyond the disk space it uses. Plus, unlike a VM it docks a bar on your current desktop. It's like having the VM act as an extension to your Windows environment. Very cool. You can access your local hard drive as /mnt/C so you can have all the Linux tools at your finger tips (grep, chron, sed, vi, etc...) I've only used this for a day or two but it seems like it's going to be very helpful. Oh yeah the root password is 123456.
Happy Ubuntuing!
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