[CoLoCo] Recent Mac Purchase

[Kevin B]

When I last used fusion unity was only supported for windows guest operating
systems.  The Linux ones didn't have the option.  It has been about six
months since I've had a Mac, so that might have changed with the new version
of fusion.  My original plan with my Mac was to run it, vmware fusion +
unity with win xp, and a barebones linux vm and ssh into it... I ended up
running into too many memory and io issues and scrapped the idea.  Now that
SSDs are starting to become affordable and you can put 4GB of ram in a
macbook, I'm almost tempted to try this idea again.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:10 PM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>wrote:

> What about "Unity"?  VMware Workstation for Linux lets me use a "Unity"
> view, in addition to "Quick Switch" and "Full Screen", to put Windows
> windows with my Linux windows, so they sort of act like normal windows.
>  Maybe there's something similar for OS X?
>
> David L. Willson
> Network Engineer
> MCT, MCSE, Linux+
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin B" <solelist at skyshadows.net>
> To: "Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team" <ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 1:04:03 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] Recent Mac Purchase
>
>
> Dual-booting a mac is a bit of a pain, since you have to install a new
> bootloader (rEFit) and boot camp is a windows only option. I'd suggest
> trying a vm using vmware fusion first. What I used to do is run a stripped
> down Linux install in vm fusion and ssh into it from the X server in OS X.
> Then I could launch linux applications without having to deal with them all
> being in one big window.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM, David L. Willson < DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:
>
>
> Never mind. I re-read and realized that Nick's not talking about taking OS
> X off. In case I didn't make it obvious, I am all in favor of virt. I think
> multi-booting is a pain in the ass. I wish Apple would sell a virtual OS X
> appliance for VMware. I'd buy that.
>
> David L. Willson
> Network Engineer
> MCT, MCSE, Linux+
> tel://720.333.LANS
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU>
> To: "Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team" < ubuntu-us-co at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:09:30 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
> Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] Recent Mac Purchase
>
> Help me out here. What is the point of buying a Macbook and putting
> something else on it? To spend more? You know that Linux runs on much less
> costly laptops, so why bludgeon a functioning install of 10.5 or whatever,
> that you just ~paid for~?
>
> Virtualization, sure, but kick OS X off the hardware? What's the point of
> spending all the extra money then?
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