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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2006-01-14
I just played around with this a little, (using a remote machine) and found that if you run explorer.exe you get a nice fullscreen Windows desktop with Beryl effects
It's not exactly perfect, eg. you have to move windows with alt+mouse1 for them to wobble, and everything is treated as a normal window in terms of animations, but it's still quite fun to bring XP into the 21st century