RSSVMware to Offer Virtualization for Macs
By Ed Oswald | Published August 7, 2006, 12:25 PM
Ahead of the start of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco, virtualization software maker VMware announced a new product that will allow Intel Macs to virtually run any x86 operating system. The company said it plans to demo the product during the conference.
VMware is a little late to the party, however. Intel Macs have been out for nearly a year, and competing virtualization software maker Parallels released software that allows Windows and other x86-based operating systems to be run within Mac OS X. VMware says it is responding to demand.
"The demand for this has been unbelievable and it is clearly front and center for Mac users," cmpany president Diane Greene said. "This announcement brings our desktop platform and add-on capabilities to Mac users, and it will allow them to run a wide variety of operating systems without rebooting."
VMware said virtual machines created on other platforms would run in Mac OS X, and vice-versa. But as expected, virtual machines running Apple's proprietary OS will only run on an Intel-based Mac.
Those interested in the beta can pre-register on the VMware Web site, the company said. Selected testers will receive early access to the beta before it is released later this year.
How about Virtualization *of* macs?
Then we can be free of their lame-ass harware specs and still use MacOS when the occaision calls?
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|One question, if the Mac is as good as all these mac fanboys say, why do they ever need to boot another OS????
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|...to get the *real* work done. ;)
*dons flame-proof suit*
Come n' get it, boys...
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|Because no OS is ideal for every purpose. As users become more advanced they find they need different OSes for different tasks. Some application vendors cannot or will not provide their applications for some OSes. Some OS vendors even buy up popular applications to keep them from becoming available for competing OSes, and even obfuscate the file formats, thus extending a near-monopoly in one market into another market. Example: Visio. This contributes to innovation in the OS virtualization market.
One question, if you doubt the Mac is as good as all your strawman fanboys say, why do you read and comment on Mac product announcements????
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|Because it's fun to draw out fanatics such as yourself.
;)
Just my guess...
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|"Because no OS is ideal for every purpose". You don't find many XP owners booting OSX Tiger, except for novelty value.
Why? XP does everything you need, MacOSX is pretty much only good for email\wordprocessor\web.
Even the graphics packages where Mac's used to excel, have been superceeded by the Windows versions... Jobs realises this, and this is WHY they have moved to Intel architecture..
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|Well if Mark was fishing for a Mac fanatic, he'll have to throw me back. My MacBook Pro is unreliable, noisy, and overheats, and Apple likes to stonewall about problems. I recommend against buying a Mac. Their OS is better than Windows but that's not saying much.
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|You don't find many XP users bothering to learn the keyboard shortcuts either, because the mouse does everything they need, eventually.
Maybe you meant to say XP does everything *you* need? Then it's a good match for you. Stick with it. It doesn't do everything *I* need, such as keeping TCP connections (thus SSH sessions) open when I need to switch to another network and back, or allowing me to rename/move/delete files that are open by other apps. I have different needs than you. I'm not into drawing pictures, but I wouldn't doubt XP is better for that.
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|lol.
Nice.
See, folks? Some people *can* respond to harmless ribbing with a bit of dignity. ;)
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|You don't find many XP users bothering to learn the keyboard shortcuts either, because the mouse does everything they need, eventually.
Gah!
Speak for thyself, heathen!
The mouse is my enemy. I can get 90% of my work done without having to take my fingers off the keyboard. Hitting 'Winkey + Break' is *MUCH* faster than mousing to My Computer, right-click, properties.
When one actually knows how to type (A dying skill, admittedly) mousing is actually a handicap.
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|I'd much rather see a way for me to run the Mac OS on my PC.
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