If, for some reason, you thought it might be useful to run Linux programs on a Windows desktop computer, side-by-side with Windows applications, you should check out andLinux.
With andLinux you can install Ubuntu Linux from inside your Windows operating system. You can then run all the software that is pre-installed in Ubuntu, and you can download any of the thousands of great open source Linux applications and run them in your Windows session. Read more...
How to Run Linux Applications on Windows with andLinux
By Juergen Haas, About.com Guide February 23, 2008
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Install Linux inside a Windows O.S.?
Well, apart from it seems to be is a serious blasphemy and injury, it’s undoubtedly an unnecessary waste of the Linux superior features and the machine resources of memory and processing.
Don’t do this. Find free space in your hard disk, or install a new drive, make a Linux swap and a Linux native partition (ext2 or ext3), install Linux on it, make dual-boot and be happy!
Sometimes that’s not possible, we have systems where we can’t change just repartition the host because of various security regulations. In this case something like a VMWare or Colinux is the only option, it lets you install and run linux without dual booting the host or modifying the partitions. The other options like VirtualBox are good too but in some cases are too slow.