I needed to develop a plug-in for the Lotus Sametime 7.5.1 client. Once again, Google to the rescue. This time, it took a few clicks but I found a great “getting started guide” in four parts.
Part 1 - setting up your machinePart 2 - building your first plug-inPart 3 - testing and debuggingPart 4 - [...]

Well, I did the voodoo dance, sacrificed a virtual chicken, installed QEMU and KQEMU (and that deserves a post all its own) and finally have Windows Live Writer running in a VM.
It took many nights and showed me many BSOD’s and other crashes but I have my blogging client and I have Ubuntu too [...]