I'm salivating at the thought...

My sympathetic other is experimenting with VMware's new Mac OS X version of their wonderful virtualization software... which gets me to thinkin'

• Apple migrates from PPC to Intel CPU
• OS X is ported along with
• VMware is developed for OS X
• OS X is able to be virtualized
• OS X is usable virtualized on Linux / Windows running under VMware on Intel hardware!

The {man} could put the kibosh on the deal of course, by say... requiring the Host PC to run OS X for instance, or hitting Apple hardware's firmware directly in some way. Worse perhaps by using a VM format specific to the OS X version(s) of the VMware software.

With rumors of Parallels or Parallels-like functionality being part of the upcoming Mac OS X Leopard, this might be more than idle mouth-flapping since it makes you wonder why either Apple or VMware would want to bother... unless it's to get OS X on PC's in virtual glory.

Hard to see how it could factor into a master plan, but it's an interesting possibility.