Beta Beat: Parallels Server beta begins

Joshua, I believe you are wrong. Parallels Server is a OS X Server only application, meaning it will only run in OS X Server. Once running, however, you are then able to virtualize OS X, Linux, or Windows server operating systems. Parallels Server is a Mac OS X Server only application, just as Parallels (client) is Mac OS X only.

And while Photo Booth is indeed a little silly to run on a server system, Front Row will run on any Leopard system, whether or not it has a remote/iR receiver.

To follow-up: SWsoft's site says it's the first product to run "multiple copies of Mac OS X Server v10.5 Leopard on a single Apple computer" - the next sentence says that Parallels server runs on Windows or Linux, but doesn't say anything about the Guest operating systems that run on those OS's. Since they explicitly stated running multiple instances of Leopard on "a single Apple computer" in the preceding sentence, I'm interpreting that to mean that you can only virtualize Windows/Linux on the Windows and Linux versions.

Does Leo Server run Front Row?

From the press release:

"Parallels Server's industry-first capability to simultaneously run multiple copies of Mac OS X Server, Windows Server and Linux on the same Xserve

Running Parallels Server on Apple hardware gives users the industry-first option to run Mac OS X Server in a virtual machine"

So, Parallels Server will only allow OS X to run on Apple Hardware, not generic hardware.

So wait.... Am I correct that one feature will be the virtualization of a Leopard OS from a Windows host? Wouldn't that be the first "legit" way to run OS X on generic hardware?
If so, I can see another potential market for this product.... Guys like me with crappy Dells who can't shell out money for a mac right now, but could pay Apple good money for a Leopard license and Parallels for the virtualization software.