Can you figure out this setup? Snow Leopard and Windows 7...

Here's my potential rig:
- Running a Mac Pro.
- 2 Hard Drives:
1) Snow Leopard on first drive
2) Windows 7 on second drive
- 2 24" Apple LED Cinema Displays
So here's my question...is there a way I can have both OS's running at the same time, with Snow Leopard on the left monitor and Windows 7 on the right monitor, all running out from one computer rig (Mac Pro)?
I've heard of ppl using Synergy to run dual monitors with dual computers and sharing one keyboard and mouse. I want to do the same EXCEPT run it all out of 1 computer.
Any advice, suggestions, critiques?
Thanks!

You'll have to rely on virtualization there. Check out parallels or VMWare Fusion. I think both companies provide evalauation versions. There's also Sun's free VirtualBox that you might want to give a try. A virtual windows installation won't perform as well as a boot camp installation in all situations
Cheers,
Jazz

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