The future of desktop virtualization?

The newest VMware Workstation beta (6.5) contains a nice new feature called Unity.

It allows graphical applications from the host and the guest systems to run more seamlessly side-by-side.

To use it, make sure it is enabled in the virtual machine settings.



Then enable it in the view menu.



Here is a screenshot of it running.



With this technology, multiple desktops no longer need to be tolerated simply to run applications belonging to different operating systems.