Bootcamp works just fine BUT with it you can boot up in either OSX or in Windows. With VMware or Parallels you run windows within the OSX envelope and can switch into and out of windows on the fly. Doesn't work any better but it is far more convenient. True, It is more expensive.

I did too with A couple of flavors of linux but that was quite some years ago. QImage was a fair bit simpler then and Mike hadn't added most of the bells and whistles that the current version has. Still, I have a linux box in my basement and it might be fun to see if the latest Qimage will run. I haven't updated the linux package in some time but that shouldn't be too much of a problem. If that flys then maybe a look at the mac version might be worth a try.

Thee is a group working on wine for the intel mac but I have no idea of how far along that project is. The commercial version is by Codeweavers and is called Crossover.

Parallels works very well. I have it with XP on my mac pro and have had no grief at all. There are a few bits of software that just aren't available on mac and this is a simple way to get around that problem.

When I was running a linux box before I went to the mac I used wine for a number of PC programs that I wanted access to and it worked with some and it didn't with others. There is a commercial version of that available for the intel macs but I don't recall its name. I suspect though that it would gag on qimage.