1. I can't help you there 2. If you can use kvm+kqemu, that will speed disk speed, &c (that's been my experience). I couldn't do networking for some reason that had to do with my wireless card. 3. VirtualBox is known to mostly not work, though some people have managed to get it to. Vmware should work. There's a wiki page about it, you may want to look at that. I just did an install with vmware workstation that works great.
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