[Bubba]

http://www.linux.com/feature/124908

Not tried it but looks quite interesting.

[dobbin]

Nice. I did get something similar working with VMPlayer, but the guest would run wierdly at double time. Imagine you had something with a counter in, the seconds would pass in less than half a second. Wierd. I gave up and dual booted in the end. If this is better I would be interested. Will give it a try and let you know what happens.

[slackline]

Looks useful, particularly for gaming.  I've only ever tried to use Wine once or twice (before Google Earth was released natively for GNU/Linux) and never had much joy.

[unclesomebody]

"You've created the illusion that both operating systems are working on the same machine at the same time. Very cool."

You have to remember it's not fully integrated at all, it's still running vmware. It's just a slightly different way of presenting the same thing. It's all an illusion!

[Bubba]

If the illusion is good enough, does it matter? But I agree stating "fully integrated" or "seamlessly integrated" is a little misleading.

I guess you'd need a fairly beefy computer too - when i run linux in vmware on an oldish PC, everything slows down a bit.

[slackline]

I was informed by someone on a Linux forum I frequent that you can't run games under VMware.  Haven't been able to verify which version(s) of VMware this would apply to/if its true and I don't have a copy of Windows or any games to check, but it would kind of invalidate my earlier posting about it being useful for gaming if true.