from News.com:
That Parallels technology is now available as a hypervisor that runs on a computer's "bare metal," a contrast to the previous technology that runs on top of a host operating system such as Mac OS X. The hypervisor approach, also employed by VMware's ESX Server, Xen, and Hyper-V, is generally preferred for servers to the guest-host model.This could be a very cool product for those of us who are use multiple platforms depending on the task. I prefer to code while running OpenBSD, but use Apple's Aperture and Photomatix Pro on my Mac Pro for photography. Like everyone else, I'm also occasionally forced onto a Microsoft platform by a project's business requirements. While bootcamp and VMWare Fusion have worked well on the machine to meet my needs so far, the prospect of running a hypervisor on bare metal without OS X's massive resource needs is exciting. Since they're targeting Apple users with the product, they are going to have at least one significant challenge -- making sure that OS X can run multimedia applications at or near native speeds. If it can't, then I'd be better off with my current solution; while less elegant, it still allows me to use the Mac Pro as the media-machine it was designed to be.
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