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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2005-06-30
Yes, ordinary users need the type of functionality that this provides. That doesn't mean that an ordinary user is going to set it up.
I agree that there are a lot of things that should be easier to do in the software world, and this is a decent example. Unfortunately, most of the user friendly code isn't written until after the basic functionality is provided. This is based on recent software developments. You should expect continuing improvement if this is good enough for an appreciable number of people to use it and contribute to it.