Wednesday, March 1, 2006

There are absolutely a ton of conversation about Mac emulators.  This article briefly mentions VMWare for the Intel Mac.  I hope you are right Bjorn.  The Apple Blog had a fiery (and informative) essay and comment section about this.  I notice that a lot of people are talking about emulating Windows (x86) on Macintosh (ppc). In my labs I have several Mac's each partitioned several times with different boot systems.  Why?  Because I need to work on several very specific OS builds for Faculty, Labs, TEC rooms, etc. and there is no other solution.  There are plenty of products mentioned on the Apple Blog to run OS's but what is really needed (the said Market Gap) is Mac OS X emulation on Mac OS X. Is there something out there that you know of that I haven't been able to find yet? Another upcoming gap is something similar to the Altiris SVS (software virtualization solution) that allows Windows users to run programs in layers independent of the OS.  Imagine a thin layer of plastic over windows.  Everything runs for the software as expected but you can pick up all the plastic and pretend that the program was never there. Anybody? comment []  trackback []  1:02:07 AM