Any sage advice before VM deployment?

Hello All,
I plan to install VMware Fusion and then Windows XP (Home Edition) on my MacBook Pro (1.8Ghz, 1G ram) and would like to know any tips or "gotcha's" to lookout for before I start.
Also, I've scanned the Support section and can not find any how to pages on the topic of setting up a Virtual Machine. Plenty on Parallel, but not VMware.
From what I've read on the VMware site, it all seems fairly point and click, but I'm never that lucky so any advice you care to share would be appreciated. Or any link to documentation would be great also.
Thanks in advance.
Ron

RWhite wrote:
Just ordered the software so it hasn't arrived yet. Plus past experience says, I don't want to start the process only to find that I'm under powered (1G RAM)
You are. It will work with 1G, but not quickly. 2G is the minimum for a virtual machine.
or needed to partition off 20G of hard drive space for the Virtual Machine before hand.
You won't have to do that with a virtual machine. That is one of the upsides to a VM rather than BootCamp.
Have you setup your Pro as a VM and what were you configurations?
I run XP Pro under Parallels on a MacBook with 2 Gig RAM. It worked with 1 Gig, but I had display problems. You won't have those problems on a Pro, but you still need 2 gig at least.

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