John Hunt's web log » seamless windows http://john-hunt.com Linux, open source, development, coding, beer and other stuff Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:08:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 VirtualBox 1.5x http://john-hunt.com/2008/02/04/virtualbox-15x/ http://john-hunt.com/2008/02/04/virtualbox-15x/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:06:36 +0000 admin http://john-hunt.com/linux/2008/02/04/virtualbox-15x/ Looks like the guys over at Innotek have been busy, probably old news to most but I just realised they’ve released version 1.5 of Virtualbox last year.

Among a whole bunch of bug fixes and other improvements it seems they’ve added one cool feature that will make working with those windows only programs much easier – seamless window integration with your host OS (I think that’s linux only, but I might be wrong). I’ve not tried it out yet, but as far as I can tell you can have windows application windows displayed properly and running at full steam with all the rest of your windows – very much like running some kind of cool (sort of) hybrid OS!!! I thought it was exciting anyway.

To explain what I mean further, I found this rather strange video on youtube:

Once I get that new pc, I’ll give it a go!

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Update:
It works, but it goes very strange if you have ‘desktop effects’/compiz turned on. Which is annoying! Nevermind!!! I’m sure it’ll be sorted out fairly soon.

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