While I was in Mexico I realized that for the way I work, virtualization was not the best solution… so here is a list of applications I would use:

Scan Taylor http://sourceforge.net/projects/scantailor/
Qiqqa http://www.qiqqa.com/About/Features#Compare
StatPlanet http://www.sacmeq.org/statplanet
FLeX http://fieldworks.sil.org/flex/
SayMore http://saymore.palaso.org/about
Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/make/features.html
GSpot www.headbands.com/gspot/