I had low expectations being a free product but it has worked well. The only reason I gave it a shot is that it claimed to support PXE booting on the Mac. I was happy with this when I read a press release on Sun Virtual Box.
This worked pretty well with good speed and stability. I would then copy that VM from the Windows machine to a Mac and open with Fusion and install VMWare tools. For Fusion users I would use Vmware Workstation for Windows (free) to PXE boot and create a Windows VM with our Windows image. Eventually VMWare Fusion came out around the same timeframe as Parallels 3 was out and we were having tons of speed, USB, and stability issues with Parallels. Both Parallels and Bootcamp required I recreate our Windows images from scratch. Just like everyone else, they would tire of rebooting for one or two apps. ( the main reason I run windows is gaming, and use bootcamp/Native boot for max performance in 3D games.)
Some to run Windows for certain applications they didn't want to replace due to price, others just to have a security blanket in case they couldn't figure out how to do something form OS X. When people first started switching from Windows to Mac at work they would use Bootcamp. I work for a liberal arts college and we do all of our Windows imaging through Zenworks via PXE boot. For text documents maybe easier to print by dragging and drop to the Mac side via the shared computer shown in the Finder sidebar or simply mailing the document to yourself to be downloaded and printed later. Upon quitting VBox the printer will be released to the Mac and the document(s) will print. With the printer plugged into the rear USB port on the MacBook you can print from VBox when the print command is executed the normal dialog boxes show up and one clicks on the Print button, but nothing will be printed, the printer icon will show up in the doc with a yellow dot indicating a problem. As for the printing part it sort of goes this way. With VBox enabled, but the MacOS not running plug the printer into the rear most port on the MacBook and enable the printer in the VBox Settings pane using the + icon on the right hand side of the pane and then verify that the printer shows up in the Printer pane of System Preferences on both the Mac and in VBox. Both the Mac and VBox OS have to have the appropriate printer drivers for your printer installed. To enable printing one can use the data on this link (Printing from within a WinXP Virtualbox client with a Mac OSx host) to enable printer sharing on both the Mac and in VBox, Step 4 in not applicable, I am using the Bridged setting in VBox.
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