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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RE[2]: What does "rootless" mean?
by mmu_man on Thu 7th Jun 2007 09:26
in reply to "RE: What does "rootless" mean?"
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It's not for linux yet...
Actually I'm wondering how they do it... possibly using some RDP hooks in windows.
Just snooping the framebuffer and using clipping info isn't enough to show all windows entirely like is required for things like Exposé... Either they hook in before and get the full windows content from USER/GDI or they just create a huge framebuffer and force windows to not overlap, but that might have some odd side effects.
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2006-08-18
Great. So does this mean Linux users will nolonger have to resort to RDP hacks to achieve a seamless Windows setup on Linux?