[RyanCahoon]

2010 - 2012 seasons, I used to run Autodesk Inventor and LabVIEW in an XP VirtualBox VM running on top of Ubuntu. I used Ubuntu for all my non-FIRST computing (worked better for CS schoolwork and research projects). Took quite a bit of stubbornness to keep at this when Inventor would crash because it ran out of memory - 4GB isn't a lot to split between two OSes. I've since switched back to pure Windows 7 because most of my projects (a lot of them at least related to work projects) are now Windows-based, but I may be going back to a Linux dual boot because I'm starting to a project using ROS.

To respond to the OP's question: I did run the Driver Station in the XP VM, but only for shop testing, and USB support wasn't very good then, so I could never get the joysticks to work.