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The newest beta of VMWare for Mac (VMware Fusion Beta 4) has it's own ace-up-the-sleeve to counter Parellels' newest version.




I'm not sure how it is done(Especially with XP and Vista's activation needs with hardware changes), but VMware Fusion Beta 4 will allow you to use your boot camp XP or Vista partition as a Virtual Machine. This means, amung other things, that you can boot your Boot Camp'd copy of XP or Vista inside of Mac, so you can easily use one copy of XP or Vista both in Mac OSX and stand alone. This is a great step in the right direction.

If either Parellels or VMWare could get the nice new features the other one has, you would truly have easy and fast support for Windows on a Mac, and hopefully, those features would move to Linux. But yay for Mac. They have become 100% usable by prior Windows users, leaving very little migration problems. That is pretty much the main reason why people haven't switch, there where just too many migration problems.

I would love to have 2 or more OS installed on my machine, and be able to run any one of them while still running the other (any other, at that).