Seamless mode confinement

rikow · Post by **rikow** » 9. Jun 2008, 15:41

Hi all,

I'm running XP Pro as guest on Ubuntu Hardy with VBox 1.6.0. I'm looking to something that "seamlessly"

integrates some XP applications into my Linux desktop. But, if I'm not mistaken, seamless mode in VBox is just 1 step short of what I'd like.

After I set my VM to seamless mode, the XP desktop disappears and the windows applications seem to float freely on the desktop, but only on the linux desktop, where the VBox window would be. Since you have several (virtual) desktops in gnome, I cannot move for example my Outlook window to desktop 5 and my Word window to desktop 3. Is that correct? Or am I missing something?

The new VMware workstation 6.5b does exactly that (what they call unity mode), however, it runs kind of sluggish, is still buggy, has a (much) larger footprint, and is very expensive (can' beat free!:)

Thanks and cheers,
Riko

Post by **Phobos** » 9. Jun 2008, 20:50

yes, that is correct

virtualbox can't yet do that, but most probably will in a future version

rikow · Post by **rikow** » 9. Jun 2008, 20:54

Too bad I was right

But if it would be implemented in a future release, that would be great. So I'm looking forward to the developments.

Thanks for the reply,

Riko