vmware fusion for linux?

[henky]

Hi guys

i know of vmware fusion for mac(short description; you can install windows xp, and then litteraly fuse for ex. word on your desktop)

is such a application available on linux?
im running ubuntu 7.10 thnx!

[petekazanjy]

You can do exactly that with two of VMware's other products:

1. VMware Workstation: VMware Workstation, virtual machine, multiple operating systems, Windows and Linux - VMware

2. VMware Server: VMware Server, Virtual Server Consolidation, Free Virtualization - VMware

Hope that helps.

[henky]

You can do exactly that with two of VMware's other products:

1. VMware Workstation: VMware Workstation, virtual machine, multiple operating systems, Windows and Linux - VMware

2. VMware Server: VMware Server, Virtual Server Consolidation, Free Virtualization - VMware

Hope that helps.

no those are just virtualasation softwares, this is what I mean: YouTube - Unity in VMware Fusion for Mac OS X

[kai12]

Have you checked out innotek's VirtualBox?

It features what innotek call's a «seamless mode», which will give you application
windows from the guest os directly in your host os without the desktop of the
guest os.

I'm running a Windows guest on a Linux host, works nicely for me. The Windows
taskbar is put on my gnome desktop, so I can launch programs from there.

AFAIK, the seamless mode is only implemented in the closed-source free-for-
private-use version available from innoteks website, eg. there is a debian
package called "virtualbox", they even run a repository for it.

There's also an open-source version, debian package virtualbox-ose, and I
think it's available in non-free or contrib sections on debian mirrors.

cheers, kai