Hi Matt,
My company is a software company that provides middleware for private practice Radiology groups. Specifically, we provide a unified worklist that allows radiologists to read for different facilities (Hospitals or outpatient clinics) which may have incompatible software products. Specifically, the Radiologist may be using a dictation/voice recoginition system for Hospital A but they want to get a contract to read for Hospital B... which already has a different and incompatible voice recoginition system. In order to put both of these systems on the same workstation, we are exploring the use of VMWare Workstation.
There are other use cases for which we are investigating VMWare Workstation: multiple instances of the same image viewer which may connect to different servers, for example.
Ideally, most of these problems could be resolved by changing how the application(s) themselves work (removing incompatibilities). But... this is usually not possible (for many reasons).
In the case of the voice rec systems, we need the ability to programmatically switch the microphone from the Host to the Guest when the radiologist begins dictation for the facility for which the voice rec system has been virtualized.
Hope this helps.
ps: I saw that vmware-cmd has this capability, but my assumption is that there is no way to use vmware-cmd with Workstation. Am I right?
