Virtualized Macs!
Monday, February 12th, 2007
Virtualization is a great concept! So great in fact that Microsoft has included virtulization in Windows Vista as part of it’s Complete PC Backup. So great that VMWare has several free virtulization products. So great that many large organizations are consolidating their servers now through virtulization. But then there’s Apple. To date OS X can only run on Apple Hardware. No support for virtulization. But that might soon be changing…. Two large virtulization companys, Parallels and VMWare were recently quoted in an article on Slashdot about virtulizing OS X. What does this mean? One could finally be able to run Mac software on a Windows, Unix, or any platform that had a virtual machine player. No more need to by speciffic apple hardware! Not only is this an ingenious idea, but I would imagine that if PC users could experience the benefits of OSX, there would be more widespread adoption. I’d just love to see the commercials for this one… “Hi, I’m a PC, but I’m also a Mac!”
Also, when I was researching links for this article, I came across this sweet story from enGadget. Yes you are looking at full DirectX virtulization on a Mac! So step one, run OS X on a PC to become comfortable. Step 2, virtulize your PC apps AND GAMES!
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