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For the past 6 months or so I have claimed to anyone who asks that QtEmu is about ready for it's 2.0 release - and I think I'm totally right about that. QtEmu is an app that is basically trying to be like vmWare workstation, but better. It's not quite there yet, but it's already pretty good. It is based on the work of uwolfer, the mind behind the massive improvements to KRDC in kde, and he has played a key role in helping me improve it this much.

In the past 6 months or so I have added a number of big features - things like automatic USB support, local file socket VNC support (this makes connections a lot more secure) and a bunch of other things. At the moment I'm pretty sure the only thing holding it back is the fact that VNC screen updates are rather slow - but that's the case in KRDC as well.

It's a common problem for plenty of techie type people, or at least it is for me: i find myself with about 5 computers on my desk, and i want to see every screen. Of course, in this instance, a KVM is not really a great option, but I also don't want to have 5 keyboards to choose between. Another common scenario is when I have to use my laptop and a desktop computer simultaniously, and a third all too frequent desire is to be able to cut and paste between multiple machines. There is a solution that solves all of these problems, and is completely cross-platform to boot: Synergy.