Re:Personally ... (Score 2, Interesting)

VMware player and workstation now have experimental 3d acceleration support. I have a Windows XP player running Google Sketchup in accelerated mode currently. Works great.

http://www.easyvmx.com/blog/?q=vmware_with_3d_acceleration

I've seen reports that it can run many older DX8 type games. Of course wine runs most of those just fine so why bother with a VM.