LugRadio talk topic: VM Streaming

4/12/2008 in Hacks by Alex Graveley | 2 comments

Like David, I’ll also be talking about something other than what’s been listed on the LugRadio LIVE schedule.

I plan to show off a new feature of Workstation 6.5 Beta called VM Streaming. Basically, you click on a link like http://www.beatniksoftware.com/vmware/BeOS/beos.html and a locally running VM starts up, downloading on demand in real-time over HTTP. No muss, no fuss, no decompressing a zip file or insane download times.

See you at 2:30.

If there is large crowd demand, I can also show off Gimmie running as an AWN applet, or Pyro speeding along on the latest Firefox 3.0 beta… but I’ve only got 30 minutes!

2 comments

  1. Seif Lotfy’s avatar

    Seif Lotfy on 4/12/2008 at 5:28 pm

    kick ass i wanna see pyro.
    got used to gimmie :P
    dont forget mayanna

  2. Sandy’s avatar

    Sandy on 4/12/2008 at 7:47 pm

    Pretty sweet stuff there. Bummer the internet was so fucked. It was pretty funny to see BeOS boot so slowly, :-P

    I’ll reiterate my feature wish here for the benefit of those not at LRL: the launcher file should be able to specify that a specific application is launched in Unity mode. This would help to further blur the lines between local/remote/virtual/etc apps on the desktop, which can only be a good thing, right?

    Man I wish this was open source; sounds fun to hack on!

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