Back in the days when I used to fiddle around a bit with a Gentoo installation, I found an article on the gentoo wiki about this:
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(The wiki is sort of gentoo specific, but the windows part should be the same for all linux distro's)
The only downside to this is that you'll have to select a hardware profile everytime you boot into windows.
Also, the wiki only describes how to configure windows XP. I don't know if it applies to Vista too.
EDIT: oh yeah, don't try to boot your windows installation inside a VM running under the same windows installation. You WILL get a BSOD
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