Fedora in XP

I have XP on my machine, and also Fedora 2 as dual boot option. The problem is, I can only use one system. No way I can use it in parallel because dual boot never let you boot both simultaneously. My problem need action when I found that for some reason, the network card seem to be not in good condition in Fedora 2. Thanks for blogger adli the LAN based worm security master, I try to use VM Player. Its the free version of VM Ware. I downloaded Fedora 5 and now, I can have both OS running together.