Running any sort of virtual OS environment has always made a little leery. This has certainly be the case when considering the purchase of VMware for Linux. But after seeing what it can do with a Mac, Windows and so on - maybe it is worth a second look?

I reported yesterday that we (my friends Mark A. Smith and Benjamin Reed, and myself) had a full-fledged customized version of Knoppix running on the Intel-based Macintosh. Earlier, we had Linux booting on the Intel-based Macintosh, as reported here.
Windows XP on the Intel-based Macintosh: A Virtualized Possibility

We now have Windows XP running on the Intel-based Macintosh — as a guest operating system under the Linux version of VMware. This is quite exciting and promising, especially since the performance of Windows XP seems quite amazing (based on our limited test run so far) — mind you, the kernel and the environment we are using experimental and unoptimized, so it would not be unreasonable to expect even better performance. [Read the rest]

[tags]knoppix,vmware,intel-based macintosh[/tags]