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Unity

7 Comments Posted by chipx86 on June 6, 2007

I remember the day I 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.

Check it out.

Kudos to the people who have spent many nights practically living here. They’ve pulled off an amazing feature. And we’re not done yet.

I know I’m going to be asked if we’re doing this on Linux or Windows. It’s too early to say what our feature list is like for the next major product. So feel free to just speculate

Update: They moved the link on Digg, so updated my link.

Uncategorized MacOS-X, Unity, Video, VMware

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7 Responses to Unity

bobo June 6, 2007 at 11:05 AM
Oh please, support bringing the Windows applications from VM running on top of Linux rootlessly to the user! Getting Office 2007 and Windows Live Messenger really “run on Linux” would make my day!

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Adam Williamson June 6, 2007 at 11:40 AM
That’s damn impressive. Congratulations.

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Zon June 6, 2007 at 11:49 AM
If this will be in Fusion soon (as the video says), but not in some update to Workstation 6, then I’m going to be seriously upset This is something really useful and while you can get similar effect with 2X Server or SeamlessRDP, it’s nowhere near as nicely integrated as the way you did it in Fusion…

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MacSlow June 6, 2007 at 11:50 AM
Not that I use VMware or OSX or a combination of those, but still this certainly looks like some very impressive integration work! Hats off!

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ChipX86 June 6, 2007 at 12:23 PM
Zon: Don’t be upset. It’s a new feature, and a major one at that, and Workstation 6 is already released. Just because it’s in Fusion now doesn’t mean it’ll never go into any other products in the future.

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Brad June 6, 2007 at 1:56 PM
Mindblowing. Just … mindblowing. If this works with Ubuntu in a VM I’ll be closest to the happiest pig in a mixed-unix world Either way: congrats to the VMWare Team!

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Numpty July 4, 2007 at 5:33 AM
What’s the big deal? Parallels can already do this, and has other generally-nicer-than-vmware features too.

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