Mac users are finding it easier and easier to support Windows applications on their machines. The choices in front of them are numerous and growing. With Apple's Boot Camp not satisfying everyone, Parallels and VMware have created and offer a virtualization solution to make running Windows and other operating systems on one's Mac an extremely simple process. But they aren't the only virtualization games in town. Mac users are finding it easier and easier to support Windows applications on their machines. The choices in front of them are numerous and growing. With Apple’s Boot Camp not satisfying everyone, Parallels and VMware have created and offer a virtualization solution to make running Windows and other operating systems on one’s Mac an extremely simple process.But they aren’t the only virtualization games in town. Others are picking up the virtual torch in hopes of bringing this benefit to Mac users – only better – offering it free of charge. Unfortunately, you might have to wait a little bit longer for these desktop virtualization platforms to bake. The German company Innotek recently announced a new version of its desktop virtualization solution for Windows and Linux – VirtualBox 1.5. But with an Alpha version in the works, it should be available for Mac OS X in the near future.VirtualBox 1.5 adds a number of new features such as seamless windowing mode where the windows of a VM directly integrate with your Linux or Windows desktop – making VirtualBox the first product to offer this support on the Windows and Linux platforms. Support for the 64-bit versions of Windows as host operating system has been added as well as official support for IBM OS/2 Warp as a guest operating system. Version 1.5 also adds support for serial ports and comes with a fully standard compliant Intel PXE network boot agent. A detailed list of improvements can be found in the Changelog.Another free product making its way into Mac user’s living rooms in the not so distant future is “Q”. With Q, you can run Windows, Linux and a lot more on your Mac. Q is based on the open-source QEMU project from Fabrice Bellard and has a lot of potential, but right now is still currently in Alpha. It is a completely rewritten cocoa port of QEMU, built directly on OS X, and it makes use of Apple’s core-technologies such as Coreimage, Coreaudio and OpenGL for in- and output, saving the overhead of cross-platform APIs like SDL, FMOD or GTK. You can find out more information about “Q”, here. Software Development