I (almost always) agree. I have an M-Audio FireWire Solo recording interface. Basically an external sound card with balanced inputs & outputs and a higher sampling rate. Problem is, only Windows and Mac drivers are available and VirtualBox doesn't seem to have firewire support. Has anyone out there in linuxland tried this? --- On Tue, 7/10/12, Lisa Kachold wrote: You don't really want a dual boot box anyway.  Run XP in a Virtualbox?