[wmeddie]

Brings back memories. My first VPS back in 2003 used UML and it worked great. You could also run it inside Windows as well. Could even get GUI apps running by running Xming on your Windows desktop using CoLinux (http://www.colinux.org/?section=screenshots).

[zoobab]

Colinux was freaking great, I could run an OpenSSH server on port 22 and sometimes ending up on a Linux box, sometimes on a Windows box. Weird.