I just found the reason why I’m going to slap down almost $200 bucks for VMWare Workstation over Virtual PC: Unity. I am using a coworkers VM to help on a project he’s been working on, but he uses VMWare and I use Virtual PC. Instead of buy a license I’m using VMWare Player. Well I found option under VMWare called Unity so of course I clicked it. Well it’s possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen ever.
Here is my desktop with VMWare running as normal:
and here it is with Unity:
All of the windows/applications that were active inside the VM are now native windows in my host. Also, when you go down to the start button, a second Start Button with the name of the VM becomes visible that allows you to start other apps in this same mode. I don’t care what you say, that’s just awesome.
