siliconvalleysleuth.com — Virtual machine developer VMware is scheduled to make an appearance at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference this Monday in San Francisco.What is VMware doing at the Mac event? The obvious conclusion is that the company will introduce a version of its software for OS X and/or OS X Server.
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gernblanstonAug 6, 2006
I think VMWare is releasing a version of it's software for OSX, not the ability to load OSX into a VM environment...Innacurate?
Closed AccountAug 6, 2006
yea you canbut you need an OSX86 image wich is illigally patched to run on non apple harware.it can be pretty buggy too
jugalatorAug 6, 2006
"What is VMware doing at the Mac event?"Getting free cookies and coffee, the cheap bastards! ;-)
paniqueAug 6, 2006
Inaccurate. They are going to announce the impending release of the OS X version of VMWare that they have already said they were working on. This in no way means "OS X to go virtual".
anonydiggAug 6, 2006
It doesn't feel right to run one OS atop another. I would rather see Xen being ported to run on EFI, then having it run OSX, Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc....
Closed AccountAug 6, 2006
how about vmware that runs on osx ppc and intel, to run windows, linux etc, but faster than MS v pc, that would b nice
breakneckridgeAug 6, 2006
How easy is it to create a virtual machine application? Based on how quickly new vm's are coming out It must be much easier to program than an emulator.
p5ychoAug 6, 2006
I totally agree. The title is misleading.
digdugdiggerAug 6, 2006
I was thinking the same thing, back in the day with VPC there was a way you could link VPC to open .exe files when you launched them from the Finder......maybe Apple and Parallels or Apple and VMWare are considering adding something like the Classic layer that would go through the Windows boot process like with OS9 and then let you run off your Boot Camp partition. Microsoft's happy their Windows is being sold, Apple's happy their machines are flying off the shelves, it's win/win; until the PC users get so used to OSX they stop using the Boot Camp partition and are sick of Windows.