The future of desktop virtualization

Nope, there is currently nothing like this! Bootcamp allows you to dual boot windows XP/Mac. This allows you to run multiple independent OS's on a single PC - at the same time.
 
Full power, shared.

Okay, can someone translate? I'm not a dabla speaker. :)
 
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chiskop said:
How is that different from what you can already do with Virtualbox or VMware Fusion? :confused:
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If I'm understand this correctly...

With VMWare/Virtualbox/whatever you have a Host OS <-> Guest OS relationship. Where you can run many guest's on one host. These Guest OS's all run in their own "virtualized world" on the Host OS.

To keep with the above anaology, what the OP is about is like having multiple Host OS's running at the same time on the physical hardware and not in their own virtualized world as before. (At least I think).
 
It will be your actual hardware and not something virtualised!
 
dequadin said:
If I'm understand this correctly...

With VMWare/Virtualbox/whatever you have a Host OS <-> Guest OS relationship. Where you can run many guest's on one host. These Guest OS's all run in their own "virtualized world" on the Host OS.

To keep with the above anaology, what the OP is about is like having multiple Host OS's running at the same time on the physical hardware and not in their own virtualized world as before. (At least I think).
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Ah, okay. Got it.

That does sound pretty cool.
 
I still think that VMserver on a linux OS running on a 4Gbyte dual processor will easily support 2 vurtual OS's and it doesn't cost a cent extra to set up!
 
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all this is server virtualization moving main stream, where you have a hypervisor managing dual/multiple OS's running at the same time. not that difficult to grasp. Citrix/vmware/sun will all release a desktop hypervisor/pan managers to mount any number of OS's onto desktop hardware. Obviously in 18-24months time we will have mutli core CPU's [ 8/16/32 core] able to share vast resources.
 
jirm said:
all this is server virtualization moving main stream, where you have a hypervisor managing dual/multiple OS's running at the same time. not that difficult to grasp. Citrix/vmware/sun will all release a desktop hypervisor/pan managers to mount any number of OS's onto desktop hardware. Obviously in 18-24months time we will have mutli core CPU's [ 8/16/32 core] able to share vast resources.
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And I guess one needs to ask why?
 
VMware will run two OS's, but the Guest OS will be reliant on the Host OS. If the Host crashes then it will take down the Guest. If the Host gets infected with a Virus; it can impact the Guest too - since the Guest is reliant on the host.

Why would you want to do this? Firstly, your company could buy you a notebook, any notebook (or you could use your private notebook), and connect to a corporate desktop that is centrally managed. You would no longer have to manage many machines, every time the user starts their machine, they would get a clean desktop image.

Secondly, you may want to run several OS's at the same time, each running on native hardware. You may run Mac multimedia for DTP tools, Linux to securely connect to the internet and Vista for gaming and multimedia. Each OS will now be able to run as if it were running locally with non of the disadvantages of running in a virtual environment, i.e. no multimedia capabilities.

The principle of Virtual desktops is relatively well established and the tools to do this are available - this new technology takes it to a new level....
 
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