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Chrome OS Virtual Machine Build Ready For Your Testing

4:28PM Adam Pash | If you’re aching to try out Chrome OS after taking a glimpse earlier today, friendly power user Mark Renouf has compiled a VMware image of Chrome OS for testing out in your virtual machine environment. More »
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Parallels 5 Integrates Windows 7 With Aero Support

2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Since the release of Windows 7 last week, we’ve already seen a VMWare Fusion update that runs Windows apps inside OS X with full Aero graphical support. Now Parallels is going head-to-head, offering a similarly slick virtualisation package. More »
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Enable Aero In A Virtual Machine Installation

4:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’ve been disappointed by the lack of Aero-based visual effects when you install Windows Vista or Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine installation, this handy guide will help you crank up the eye candy in your Windows virtualisation. More »
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Access A Windows 7 Installation In Mac OS X With VirtualBox

10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Tech thinker Anil Dash gets “uncharacteristically nerdy” and breaks down the process he used to install Windows 7 in Boot Camp — and then get access to it from OS X, without rebooting, using the free virtualisation software VirtualBox. More »
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VeeDee-Eyes Offers Pre-Configured Linux Distros for VirtualBox

7:00AM Kevin Purdy | If you’ve been checking out the newest VirtualBox beta for Mac OS X, or you’re intrigued by Linux but not ready to deal with virtualizing it, the Sun xVM VirtualBox VDI Index—or, as it’s skeevily nicknamed, veeDee-Eyes—has a host of pre-compiled, pre-configured images for you. No need to set up space, “boot” from a live CD and mess around with hardware config, as copies of Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and others are ready to run. Not all of them are free, with a few of the multi-GB distros asking for a buck or two to cover server costs, but a good number of interesting variants and betas are there for the taking. VirtualBox runs on Windows, Mac, or Linux, and is a free download. Sun xVM VirtualBox VDI Index [veeDee-Eyes via Download Squad] More »

Seamlessly Run Linux Apps on Your Windows Desktop

4:00AM Adam Pash | There’s no doubt that Linux—particularly Ubuntu—is a killer operating system full of excellent apps, but for about a million reasons, you’re stuck running Windows as your main operating system. We understand, these things happen. But what about all those killer Linux apps you’ve left behind when you decided to live the Windows life? Sure you could dual-boot or run Linux in the confines of a virtual machine window, but wouldn’t it be great if you could run those apps side-by-side with your Windows apps—like Linux users can do with WINE or OS X can do with Parallels or VMWare? You can, and today I’ll show you how to seamlessly run your favorite Linux applications directly in Windows with a free software called andLinux. More »