Visual Studio 2008 on a Macbook Air with Parallels/VMWare

Hi,
I am looking to purchase an apple laptop to replace my ageing Windows behemoth. I am a developer who writes software on both the Windows and OSX platforms. At the moment, I have to write the Mac apps on my iMac, and the Windows apps on the laptop.
Now the time has come to upgrade, I want to have the best of both worlds, and have both XCode and Microsoft Visual Studio available on the same machine - hence looking at virtualisation on the mac platform.
Has anyone tried running Visual Studio 2008 on the Macbook Air over either Parallels or VMWare? How does it hold up?

With a 15 inch MacBook Pro:
I have VS Pro 2008 running in a Windows XP VM under VMWare and, at the same time, Windows Server 2003 with IIS and SQL (for development - not production!!!) running as a separate VM. I've also watched movies and used iTunes while doing this - unplugged. Sometimes the fan kicks in, but otherwise it's pretty good. With Unity running, all the unnecessary Windows nastiness is hidden away.
I don't know that I'd do this with an Air (personally, I can't wait to get one of the new 17s - I never considered the Air as the screen is way too small for coding, viewing sites, running SQL, checking the event viewer, etc.)
Oh, and get lotsa hard disk space!

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