Virtualization
So It seems I am not as crazy as I initially thought. There is a good quick article with screenshots showing three (3) ways to run Windows XP/Vista on OSX. As I talked about last time, virutalization will be key in the next roundup of the “OS Wars”. With Novell and RHat doing it, now comes Fedora and Ubuntu. (As I mentioned with Xen + Intel’s VM chips it’s trivial).
Parallels takes it one step further: you can run in full screen mode. This is awesome! Although I feel X11 should be integrated more thoroughly into OSx’s interface, parallels now runs Windows programs as natively as OSx would run X11 programs. A simple “virtual full-screen mode” is switched on a presto:
Start button and everything! BTW, Parallels now supports emulating hardware. So you windows XP/Vista thinks its running on a normal machine.
Personally I have the PPC PowerBook, so a lot of this I can’t play around with, but it sure looks like Apple’s market share might be increasing.
UPDATE
In addition it seems that MS just released their Virtual PC 2007 for free to download. Siting:
Microsoft is investing strongly in virtualization technology for hardware and applications across client and servers. The value in virtualization technology moving forward will be in the management and the operating system rather than in the virtualization stack.
Glad I wrote my article when I did. Seems things are speeding up faster than I thought
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