VMWare on IntelMac? [Was: Re: [funsec] 2 critical vulns and the clock is ticking..[Fwd:[EEYEB-2000801]]

[Blue Boar]

Tom Van Vleck wrote:
> According to www.macintouch.com, "vmware already has a version for  Mac 
> OS X in development."

Good to know.

> Also from that site, attempts to run  VirtualPC 
> on an IntelMac just crash.

I had lunch with someone who used to be one of the VirtualPC developers, 
and someone who just happened to talk to someone who is there now.  I 
was reminded that there is a VirtualPC for the PC that already takes 
advantage of the x86 it is running on, and is of course a big part of 
Microsoft's future virtual PC strategy.  MS already ships VirtualPC for 
the Mac in order to run one of the components in a copy of XP which they 
also give you for that purpose.

So yes, it looks extraordinarily likely to me that we'll have a number 
of virtual x86 options available on the x86 Mac, and that there is a 
good chance that they will perform pretty well.  Plus, that's a great 
use for the second CPU core that a lot of apps won't otherwise use.

Cool, a couple fewer reasons for me to hate OS X, which I've been trying 
for a couple of months.  Now, if we can just fix how some keyboard 
things work, window switching... a second mouse button on my laptop... 
then we can talk.

						BB