| VMware touts the updates to their newest beta release of VMware Fusion to be: More Seamless, Safer, More Mac-friendly, with More Tech-Pro Tools. Now is it safer, or did it cross the lines of “The Rules of Virtualization”.
Similar to the rules of robotics:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. (source)
Virtualization started out with these 3 implied rules, which where fully supported across the board until recently:
1. A virtual machine should not be aware that it is running inside a virtual machine.
2. A virtual machine should not be able to affect another virtual machine on the same host.
3. A virtual machine should not have direct access to files on the host computer.
Here are the features which I’m concerned about in VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop.
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