Nice, saves me a lot time repartitioning and doing the dual boot.

This could be a revolution in the making! :D

Let's see this thing ship and let's see how it performs before we get too excited folks.

'Let's see this thing ship and let's see how it performs before we get too excited folks'.

I understand your cynicism but this is more a mark of whats to come than specific to the actual performance of this particular product.

Goal posts are going to be changed in a very big way, be it by this, or by future software.

Performance issues aside, I would be interested to see if any of this virtualized operating systems offer native GPU support. This, in my opinion, has been the one thing kneecapping emulators, especially the Windows ones.

What Windows app are you most excited about using via virtualization on the Mac? Business tools like Visio or Access? Games (at full speed) like Thief and Halo? Virii and worms like SoBig and Nimda? (I jest!) Think of the possibilities..



>>>> http://debcentral.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=111

The next step in this evolution is actually to go down lower to do "real" hardware virtualization. Intel and AMD both have been developing processors that allow multiple OS's to run inside partitions on the system, requiring no additional software and no emulation of any kind. Earlier this week, Intel was the first to announce the availability of this type of virtualization for desktops (it has been available within Xeons for some time now) with Intel Virtualization Technology (VT). These processors currently are single core Pentiums with Hyperthreading, but will be replaced with dual core, Hyperthreaded VT enabled processors next year. AMD is planning to roll out their line of virtualization equipped processors in multiple core designs very shortly. These chips function by providing a layer, called a hypervisor, that allows multiple OS or applications to utilize the host hardware to its full potential without tripping over each other or attempting to share a single memory address among OS's.

"Virtualization software company Parallels said it will announce a virtualization product for Intel-powered Macs, with more details becoming available later this week"

So they're announcing that they will be announcing a future product sometime soon?

* falls off chair *

It's the same as pre-boarding an airplane. How can you get on an airline before you get on?

pre-boarding an airplane... Heh I love George Carlin...

Kinda like Preheat an oven to 350 degrees... Sorry but an oven can only be in one of two states... HEATED or UNHEATED, pick one!

Dave