Linux virtual machine.

One of the BOINC projects, Gaia, does not, yet, have a Windows client. I would like to run its work for a while to see how it does. My machine here is running Windows 8.1 on an SSD which is prettyfull, I am frequently looking for stuff to delete. I have a second, quite small, (120GB), SSD. I figured I'd install the second SSD, and build a Linux virtual machine in something like Oracle Virtual Box and run the Linux BOINC system on that. Is that a sensible approach? Any problems you can foresee? Alternatively, a better approach?

That seems like a good approach to me.

You'll need at least a couple of GB of free space for vbox to create the virtual disk that will be used for your Linux distro.

Thanks Salem. My brain is not what it was, but figured that would be okay. I'll set it up over the weekend, I can't do it now... I need a SATA cable!!!