Just a quickie …
To mention that VMWare’s free virtualisation product, Player, now features Unity under Linux. For those who haven’t seen this feature before, Unity lets you break applications out of the virtual machine’s window and seamlessly use them beside your native applications. There’s a few rendering quirks and it’s a little slower than using them in full windowed mode, but I have high hopes these will be smoothed out. This feature was previously only available using the OSX desktop virtualisation tool Fusion, so I’m pleased to see a premium feature filter down into the free-as-in-beer product. Thanks VMWare!
frednux said,
October 5, 2008 @ 1:22 am
Virtualbox did this months ago…
See my site for some screenshots I took last year.
jhall said,
October 5, 2008 @ 7:12 am
I tried Virtualbox’s support under Linux about 3 weeks ago. It wasn’t as well implemented. I had quite a lot of rendering issues and often would end up with large black patches of background. I wouldn’t have wanted to actually use it for anything serious.