Running Linux on Windows - VMWare

In Eric Clapsaddle’s Article A Linux Island in a C:\ of Windows, Part 1 | Linux Journal he discusses how to use Linux at work without buying any new hardware or trying to dual-boot anything. VMWare is a handy program that simulates a computer within your computer, so you can have a whole different PC running in a window on your desktop. The best part of this article is one of the comments: (by Paul Archer)

Repartition your drive and install Linux as if you were going to do a standard dual-boot setup. Then run VMWare under Windows and point it to the Linux partition. Now when you’re ready to switch to Linux as the primary OS, you can boot to Linux and setup VMWare on Linux to run Windows.
With this setup, you have the ability to access both OSes from either OS. And SuSE has a system profile switcher that would come in really handy for running Linux under VMWare and then switching to running natively.