Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st Mar 2007 16:40 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Virtualization of operating systems used to be slow and hard to use. Advances such as the KQemu accelerator, VirtualBox, VMWare, Xen and of course the recent integration of KVM virtualization into the Linux kernel have helped out a lot though, especially on the server side, but for a normal user, virtualization could be somewhat clunky. Mac users have been able to run their Windows applications like this using Parallels Coherence, yet now other *nix users can too. Ordinary desktop or business users who require applications from another operating system can benefit from a seamless desktop.
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2006-11-02
I'm pretty sure all but the last two lines are for compiling and setting up the KQEMU ("real" virtulization) module, and that's about as easy as it's gonna get until someone writes a pretty GUI to do it for you, or Ubuntu starts packaging and including kqemu.
Just my 0.03USD