I've been using VirtualBox for quiet a while now. It's really nice virtualisation software if you occasionally need Windows inside your Linux box but don't want to reboot. It has one big advantage when compared to VMWare Workstation, it's free (either free as in "free beer" or free as in "free speach" depending on the version you choose).
The only drawback of using VirtualBox is that it doesn't support multiple CPUs inside the guest system. That has changed now. The new Beta of VirtualBox 3.0 supports SMP in guest systems.
There are still a few issues. The biggest one is that it doesn't work. At least my existing XP virtual machine is unstable when if I configure it to use more than one CPU. And there are some performance problems.
I really hope Sun will fix these problem in the stable release of 3.0.
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