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VMWare Fusion

Aug 31, 2007 11:39AM PDT

VMWare Fusion is a software package created of course by VMWare. It is strictly developed and executed for the Macintosh Platform. What it does is allow users to run a virtual machine (hypervisor) of Windows on top of the Mac OS. For those of you are saying, that isn't special, here's the really cool part. You can take conponents of the Windows Virtual Enviroment and interact with them as if they were right there on the Mac platform, without having the entire Windows OS in it's own virtual window. There is another software package out there called Parallels with Coherence, that does the same thing.

Now I am not a Mac user, but I find this software really awesome. And I do use hypervisors when I need to access Linux. Is anyone aware of a software package like Fusion which runs on Windows? I think there should be, for those of us who do use Linux in a virtual machine this would be cool. And for those who run different versions of the Windows, or just have another computer in a hypervisor.

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Sorry, haven't run that one.
Sep 1, 2007 2:41AM PDT

I have run Parallels and thought it was great.

As to your new issue I do have my solution. But it's not what you think. Here it is.

I have Linux running on a networked PC. On Windows I have my X-Server running and can tell my linux box to send the app I want to my Windows X-server and viola I'm doing and getting just about what a VMware fusion might do.

Sorry but some will call that cheating.

Bob

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Cheating I Call That Resourcefull
Sep 1, 2007 8:13AM PDT

Bob, I use Linux moderately. I prefer Windows, and I am MCSE. I like Windows better. That be said I am very well off with Linux but some of the advanced things that i would figure out easily in Windows won't come that with Linux yet. Can you tell me how you run X11 on the Windows Shell.

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Sorry.
Sep 1, 2007 10:25AM PDT

You know I often decline to duplicate web content. You can look with google about what X-Server's are out there for Windows.

Bob