What exactly is this thread about? What and why is this important
or disappointing? I understand VMWare, Parallels, etc allowing
"virtual" environments of non-Mac OSes. But I don't understand why
I would want a virtual Mac OS environment in a Mac OS environment.
You don't understand VM's.
It's not that OS X would run a copy of OS X. It's that a box would
run a "Virtual Machine Manager" that exposes the hardware virtually
to guest OSen; you would then run multiple OSen, one of which being
OS X, on top of that.
Note this is exactly what Mach already permits, so technically this
ability already exists it's just not exploited.
Well, I can see some people still holding on to some pre-OS X
software that they "have to have" and needing the Classic
environment (or at least thinking they do) and there is software or
ten year old Mac's still running for that.
Excuse my ignorance
There's no need for excuses. There's this whole freakin' intraweb
thingie and this studf is spilled out on the pages of every industry
rag these days and books at bookstores. If you're involved in
supporting OS, you better catch the wave.
