Vbox is up to 3.02. I’ve been using it since about 2.14 IIRC. I’ve only got 2gb ram in the T61 gave win 760mb and only let it use a single processor. Mapped a drive to the physical vista part no problem.
Performance with the above params is pretty good. You ought to upgrade your VBox they have
made a lot of improvents and it handles win 7 beta pretty good.
Are you saying you are running Vista in VB on a “raw” partition? And no problems?