VMware Fusion

In the VMWare case mentioned above and the way VirtualPC works when using the "virtual switch" a special driver is loaded that acts like a fake network device. ...

There is actually an article on securityfocus about packet sniffing as a means to defeat firewalls. I'll not link to it because it was a very silly article overall. However the gist of it was that you can sniff packets even with the firewall enabled - libpcap (used in VMWare) captures the packets before the firewall examines them. Now, what mechanism VirtualPC uses, I...

Link them together on the network for fast distcc compiles!!! Distributed computing, here we come :D

I could see owning three or four of these just for testing various OS versions quickly and easily. That'll do until something like VMware exists for OS X, if ever. ...

Er, essentially the same people that would use Virtual PC, albeit a much more limited audience? Anyone testing multiplatform compatibility (let's say I'm a Windows web page developer that wants to see how a page looks on Safari), people who have to run Mac-only programs and have no access to a Mac, people who want to take advantage of multiple virtual machines (I regularly...

or VMware that simply doesn't work. I also wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be a hoax. ...

Not stupid at all. I run VMWare, an x86 emulator on *gasp* an x86 computer! Why? Testing different OSes without cluttering my room with more computers. If it crashes, I switch to Freecell or Solitaire will it reboots :p Mostly it's good for developers to test on different platforms. I also want to mention another PPC OS: MorphOS. If it weren't for the expensive (and...

I can't buy a real MAC and so was wondering if you can run mac os x on a PC or run it in a vmware session? ...

I'm spoiled by VMWare for Windows. ...

It would be extremely nice if there was an alternative... Who here has lobbied VMWare to port their app today? ...