VMware announces Mac client

I'm wondering, what is the performance decrease running windows on this verses parallels?

I wish VMware would create an interface for Mac OS X that can access VMware Server remote machines. This would be the best option for older PowerPC machines. I can imagine it now... access to my Linux server VMs using my Mac iBook.

Great news. VMware is awesome. I use all their stuff from the free stuff all the way up to ESX Enterprise!

I was also going to mention how funny it is that they have a parallels icon in their screenshot. Parallels should call them out on it.

I still think Parallels will be the better solution for the average joe though -- they seem to be more in tune with the pulse of the little features that people really want in the software - witness the integration of the full-screen transistions for example. Even if the virtualization might not be as good as VMware, I think they have their ear to the groudn with what mac users expect. Knowing very well how VMware sometimes lumbers along, I would not expect them to fare quite as well...

This is awesome! Our entire infrastructure is VMWare! I have a PC hanging around so I can build images on them and upload them to production when they are ready. Now I can finally do that on my MBP. HELLA.

"Not to mention this might mean that OS X virtual machines running on non-Apple hardware might soon be possible."

So just how exactly are the two even remotely related? VMWare releases a virtualization product for Mac OS X so that means that you'll soon be able to run Mac OS X in a VMWare virtual machine on Windows/Linux (i.e. non-Apple hardware)!? Somebody's logic chip isn't working properly, the two things have absolutely nothing to do with one another. It's like saying Microsoft will soon release Vista so Windows users will soon be able to run Linux on their PCs - they're not related and it's just plain stupid.

Mac OS X on Intel is tied to Mac hardware - any support for virtualization (unfortunately) will likely require not only Apple's help but their blessing as well.

I don't get it. Unless I'm missing something, what with VMware being a big(ger)company...they're not doing anything Parallels isn't doing already. Why wait until WWDC for a big reveal when your competition has products on the shelf?

I love how they have an icon for Parallels in the dock in the VMware screenshot

So, do we, Mac users, going to pay for VMWare Player when Windows and Linux boys get it free? Or is it just for the Workstation version and we'll have the free Player?

A great bit of news imho.

"Not to mention this might mean that OS X virtual machines running on non-Apple hardware might soon be possible."

Ha! Not over Steve's dead body...
(legally, that is)