On my Ubuntu laptop I’ve installed the new VMware Workstation 6.5 beta 1. I just had to try the new Unity feature.

With a click on the unity button, all your guest windows are displayed on your hosts desktop as if they were part of this desktop. I create a little video with gtk-RecordMyDesktop to demo it to you. Unfortunately, when capturing the video from my desktop, the cpu spikes to 99% and the performance of the moving Windows is somewhat degraded. Also I’m not contect with the video quality after it is uploaded to YouTube.  Still I think its quite impressive to see what Unity can do.

On thing I forgot to demo is that you can view guest’s startmenu by placing your mousepointer in the upper left corner of the desktop on which VMware Workstation is active.

by Gabrie van Zanten