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
VMware was the first company to virtualize the x86 processor.
Certainly not.
Windows 3.1 extended mode had the DOS box way before.
It wasn't fully virtualized, couldn't actually "boot" but it really virtualized some things like I/O calls.
It's not like anyone comes up with everything out of the box in CS. It's just a continuity from older stuff.