Virtualization with Parallels

Phil Windley revies Parallels and mentions that “Virtualization will become part of our everyday lives”. I tend to view virtualization on the desktop as a necessary evil rather than being a good thing on its own.

I had to use a colleagues desktop, running Linux with a Windows running in VMWare which then had a remote desktop connection to a server in the server-room upstairs. It was a tough exercise, because Gnome sidebars kept popping up whenever I hovered to close to the edge, and email messages from Evolution causes me to lose focus on my current window. I had to give up.