Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Windows Mobile, VoIP
Running Skype on 4 operating systems - on 1 desktop
by Brad Linder Mar 7th 2007 at 12:00PM
So he fired up Parallels on his Mac and set up two virtual machines, one to run Linux, the other for Windows. And inside of the Windows machine, he used Microsoft's Device Emulator to load a virtual Windows Mobile device.
The verdict? You can sit around and talk to yourself for hours on end. The Windows Mobile version didn't play as nicely as some of the others, but it's likely that this is because of the emulator rather than the Skype client. After all, we're talking about an emulator running inside of an emulator, on a machine that's running a grand total of four operating systems simultaneously.
Is there any rational reason why you might want to replicate this experiment at home? Of course not. But it's still pretty cool. What other programs can you think of that might be able to run in this environment?
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Grammar freak said 12:57PM on 3-07-2007
Me wanty Skype support in Gaim!
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gezepi said 6:16PM on 3-07-2007
That's amazing!
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Jeff said 6:17PM on 3-07-2007
Office. Or any word processor... not as fun as talking to yourself - but could be useful to see what your document looks like in each setting. Does it change? How does it change?
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4cr JaXs said 7:35AM on 3-08-2007
"Me wanty Skype support in Gaim!
Posted at 12:57PM on Mar 7th 2007 by Grammar freak"
AMEN!
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