When you get yourself a performance car, you want to use all the
brute force. And that's exactly how you feel when getting a new
Lenovo W510 laptop. At least I did. Developing SharePoint solution
does require a performance machine. I tried to use Hyper V on the
machine but the BSODs made me regret that. So I turned back to
VirtualBox. After spending a day creating an image I decided that
this could not be the intention of having a W510 with all that
power. My Windows Server 2008 image just would work properly. As
Virtual PC does not support 64 bit it was just not an option, so
the only solution left was to try VMWARE Player. So yesterday I
installed it and it gave me a smooth ride so far! So, if you want
to experience a smooth virtual ride... use VMWARE Player and
abandon VirtualBox.