So, Sun has it's own virtualization software that I read about in a magazine somewhere and decided to try it out on my Windows 7 installation. It took some doing, but I was able to use a feature called "seamless mode" that put the Ubuntu GUI on top of Windows 7. The mouse integration allows me to just mouse over a a Windows 7 window in focus to an Ubuntu windows in the background and begin playing a preview from an MP3 file that is shared by both file systems.
It's kind of fun. Now... can I do some real work with it?