Evidently the new version of VMware for OS X lets you run a virtual session right off of your bootcamp partition! Pretty cool stuff.

My buddy Craig has it working.

[ Link: Vista Running From OS X Bootcamp Partition Within OS X ]

Full firewalls all within a virtual environment — very cool stuff…

http://edge.i-hacked.com/firewalls-ready-to-go-with-vmware-virtual-machines

I am this close (fingers only an inch apart) to moving completely to OS X as my vulnerability assessment / pentesting platform. The only thing stopping me is the fact that VMWare doesn’t run on OS X (yet).

Between Fink, Darwin Ports, and eventually Portage for OS X, we have most of the *nix security tools covered. All we’ll need at that point is a decent Windows environment (most Windows security tools run on Windows) — and from what I understand VirtualPC does not fit the bill.

So, VMware, please do this for those of us who need a fast, dependable multi-OS environment from within OS X. I for one would buy it the first day it became available.