Experiences running Win XP on an Intel Mac

Hi there.
I am testing out a couple options to be implemented on a 1st generation white 2 GHz MacBook at work with 2 Gb of RAM. I am currently testing it on my 2nd generation white 2.16 GHz MacBook with 2 Gb of RAM.
Please give me your experiences running Boot Camp, Parallels, VMware Fusion and anything else which may exist.
Boot Camp gave me the "some files could not be moved" error message. I was not prepared to reformat the hard drive in my MacBook.
I have installed trial versions of both VMware Fusion and Parallels then installed Windows XP.
I installed VMware yesterday. One thing that I liked about VMware was that it gave me the option to set a maximum size allocation for the Windows files but I could opt to have it only use what it needed and grow over time. I selected this option.
I also had the option to have it allocated the maximum size immediately.
VMware seems to be a memory hog. The documentation does state up front that 1 Gb of RAM is required for each virtual machine.
I just installed Parallels today. It seems to use significantly less RAM than VMware.
The first thing that I did after installing both programs was to install Symantec Antivirus and 4 antispyware programs. That reminds me, I need to finish installing them on in the Parallels environment.
Any feedback and your experiences, pitfalls to be avoided, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Howard

Keith, you should check out the craigslist.com Apple/Mac forum.
http://toronto.craigslist.org/forums/?forumID=3232
I received some good and informative feedback there, including a link
http://www.macrumors.com/2007/12/19/boot-camp-vs-parallels-vs-vmware-benchmarks/
which gives the results of independent 3rd party testing of all 3 products on various Mac's and a PC too.
I found out that there is a 4th product, CrossOver Mac 6.2.0
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/
It supports a relatively limited number of PC apps. You install the PC app on your Mac without emulating the PC environment.
You can view their list of supported applications at
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?letter=all;sort%5Bapp_name %5D=ASC;curPos=50
Howard

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