There's an interesting little trick that you can perform to get Glass in a VM. Sort of. One of the coolest features of Vista that has been introduced in the February CTP is Desktop Composition Remoting (or Avalon Remoting). Generally speaking, this will allow some of the uber-cool Desktop Compositing effects to be rendered over Remote Desktop. And yes, cats and kittens, this includes Glass.
To get it working, you'll need
- Windows Vista installed on the machine you're remoting into (the VM)
- Windows Vista installed on the machine you're remoting from (the host, for example)
- The Vista build on both machines must be the same to have any reasonable expectation of this working correctly.
- The machine you're remoting from must have a graphics adapter that is capable of, and IS CURRENTLY running Glass. If it can't support Glass, you're out of luck.
- Network connectivity between the two computers.