Here's yet another Linux.com story, describing features and experiences with running Windows applications under CrossOver for Linux 6.0.

This release of CrossOver is especially interesting for many, since it's the first to officially support games. With 3D acceleration even!

From the article:
CrossOver Linux has some advantages over running virtualization software. For one, it saves you the cost of a Windows license. Also, CrossOver Linux is better suited to utilize the graphics infrastructure on your computer which allows you to play 3-D games. On the down side, it wouldn't support all native Windows applications, as a virtual machine would. Yet CrossOver Linux 6 remains an ideal solution for people who need to run the most popular Windows applications.

As you may know, virtualization is running different operating systems and environments made for the same hardware platform.

But it's also possible to run operating systems and environments made for another hardware platform than the one you are using. This is called emulation.

Emulation is when you create the processor and the hardware in software, and it usually requires a lot of processing power. That's why you usually find emulators of quite old platforms.

XNA SharpNES is announced over at Xbox-Scene.

It's a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator for the XBOX360.

Cool as it is though, you need a 'Creators Club' account ($99/12m or $49/4m) on your LIVE subscription and both Visual C# Studio Express (free) + XNA Game Studio Express (free) installed on your Windows PC. The emulator will also run on Windows, if you have the XNA Framework installed.

German blogger Hobel runs a blog devoted to bashing software.

This time he's tried VMware Player and Arch Linux, and wouldn't you know... He downright hated it!

The reason why I'm writing about this blog post is that he used EasyVMX! to create the virtual machine. And he didn't specifically hate it.

Maybe he did a mistake?
Perhaps he just forgot to hate EasyVMX!?
Or could it be that he liked it?

Unless he reads this story, I guess we'll never know. Hehe...

BTW: The picture has nothing to do with the blogger in question. It was just a nice hateful picture (is there such a thing?).

Not really virtualization, still Wine enables you to run Windows binaries on Unix. (Yes, this includes Mac too!)

Wine 0.9.30 was just released.
Here is the short version of the changes:

  - Many improvements to Direct3D shaders and state management.
  - Support for inter-process memory allocations.
  - OLE32 marshalling fixes.
  - Lots of bug fixes.

Virtual Appliances is a web site that offers "nano-sized Linux virtual machines with web user interfaces for deploying instant infrastructure and applications".

Their appliances, typically 20-60MB in size, are available for Virtual PC, VMware, Xen and Virtual Iron.

Fancy ready-build, small appliances?
Have you been wanting for the right occation to try MySQL, PostgreSQL, LAMP, Cacti, Tomcat or some other technology running on Linux, give this a try.

Disclaimer:
You will have to provide a valid e-mail address to download any of the appliances. They are also eager to make you leave your name and phone number before downloading.

Maemo is the development platform for Nokia's N800 Internet tablet.

A Maemo Development Appliance has emerged on the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace.

Yup, no dual boot or reinstall of a computer to develop on Maemo is needed.

The appliance which "can be used to quickly edit, compile, and test code targeted for the Maemo platform, which runs on Nokia N800 Internet Tablet devices." also has VMware Tools preinstalled.

If you want to develop for Maemo, you may need some some additional setup on your N800. The Maemo wiki has more information.

Update (2007-01-25, 10:14 CET):
OSNews.com has a review of the N800. Well worth a read.

According to this story on CNN.com, it could look as you will be able to run Mac OS X on a non-Apple computer.

Yes, you may be able to run OS X in a virtual machine on your Windows or Linux computer.

VMware, from the article:
VMware's CEO Diane Greene told me last week that her company's existing x86 desktop product is already being used by some to run Mac OS on computers from Dell, Hewlett-Packard and others, though this is not intentional on VMware's part.

Parallels, from the article:
SWsoft's Beloussov says that this spring, Parallels will upgrade its software further, in a way that by coincidence will make it easier to run Mac OS on a non-Apple computer. He also insists that is not deliberate, but just a consequence of the nature of the technology, especially now that Intel builds virtualization technology into its chips.

Also from the article:
Both companies' products specifically aimed at the Mac will remain self-consciously crippled in order to satisfy Apple's demands that users not be encouraged to put Mac OS on a non-Apple machine. But pressures seem to be building in a way that Apple and Jobs will increasingly have a hard time controlling.

Although not Apple's, this may fulfill the dreams of many.

The online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has a reference to EasyVMX!.

In the VMware article, under the VMware Player section, it says:

Freeware tools and websites (e.g. EasyVMX)
also exist for creating VMs(...)

Am I famous now?

As a Linux/Windows dual boot user, have you ever wondered if you could run that Windows partition from Linux without dual booting?

Actually, you can!
And it shouldn't come as a surprise that it involves VMware Player.

Oopsilon.com has an article that tells you how to achieve this.

Be warned, it's quite technical.
As luck would have it, you can use EasyVMX! to create the virtual machine. Then there's one less hoop to jump if you're going for this.

Short little notice today.

If you're good at reading French, and you want to know how to create virtual machines using VMware Player and EasyVMX!, here's the page for you:

Keroinsite.com: Comment Monter un ou Plusieurs Systems Virtuels sur Votre Ordinateur.