Started looking at the new beta releases of Virtual Box (recently purchased by Sun Microsystems) and decided to give OpenSolaris a bash. So far this is looking very sweet - easy to use, fast to run - and best of all - free (I'm talking about Virtual Box - but they same looks to be said for OpenSolaris as well).

The software's still in beta form currently and isn't fully there yet, but so far it sure looks like it'll do everything I need.