[…] ParallelSoft, the new Virtualization Super Power The cat is out of the bag, and Apple Inc, will probably not buy parallels. Since it is owned by SWSoft. This is a major announcement for the industry because now we have an idea where each of these companies will focus the effort. This announcement creates a virtualization powerhouse. Possibly the first company to make Sun, Apple, and Microsoft shake in their shoes. Think, this company has the most complete range of Virtualization technology, and with that power they can support or deny virtualization host and vms for any major operating system and the industry will follow. If Parallelsoft chooses to not support Vista, or OSX or Red Hat, then the industry will probably be ok with that, and those companies will loose huge licensing contracts due to lack of virtual environment support. Here is a quote from the orignal announcement. (read complete article in fortune) This announcement makes a lot of sense for us, and for you. With the combined strengths of SWsoft and Parallels out in the open, we ve got your virtualization needs covered top to bottom. In short, you can now hit us as a one-stop shop to outfit your organization with industry-leading hardware and OS-level virtualization that fits your server and desktop setup, regardless of what combination of Mac, Windows and Linux you may be running. What will the future bring? SWsoft has the potential to develop a universal host operating system where you can run Mac OS, Windows or linux on any x86 hardware. I would love to see a real slick lean linux Virtualization friendly kernel, that boots, and then loads your choice of virtual hard drives. The licensing of virtual environments is where Microsoft will make their money, Apple will make it from the hardware, same with Sun and Intel, SW ParallelSoft will make it from the host virtualization software. This could be a great matchup and I hope to see many new and amazing ground breaking applications in the future. There is 1 major issue, the current VHD used by Plesk/ Virtuozzo and Parallels can t be interchanged. Parallels uses Hardware virtualization, where as Virtuozzo uses paravirtualization. […]

[…] Hardware virtualization has emulated hardware from Sony (playstation), Nintendo (NES, SNES, Gameboy, etc), Atair (2600), Commodore, Apple Computer (Apple IIe, Mac Classic) and Standard Intel x86 machine. So how soon until we see this? Well recently we have seen the announcement of Parallels being owned by SWSoft, This means, they have close ties and understand of the Mac kernel, and how to do machine virtualization. So how long? […]