Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Jun 2007 20:42 UTC
"I remember the day I was interviewed at VMware. I was asked what I would do to improve Workstation, and one of the things I said was that it would be nice to make a VM go rootless. That is, pull application windows out of the VM and make them integrate well with the operating system. I wasn't the only one. A lot of people wanted this type of feature. It's been discussed for years, but it's always been hard to find the manpower to do it. But competition is good, and we finally got some people on this feature. And it turned out spectacularly."
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2006-09-30
> “Mechanism for Restoring, Porting, Replicating, and Checkpointing"...
Wow, now that's a great advancement in CS field...
Except that about any emulator has a "dump" hotkey and a restore from state dump option, I'd just cite xEuphoric as prior art:
http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/xeuphoric/xeuphoric.1.html
Automatic save is not new either, even Microsoft word does it
The only addition would be naming each dump differently to allow for multiple checkpoints, but my guess is it's not new either. (I'd have done that with a one-line shell script running alongside the emu if I'd really need to).