Users experience with MOL. (Was: Still stuck with MOL...)

[Le grand pinguin]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:24:36PM -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > > I'm still trying to get MOL working with the latest kernel.  I'm
> > > following the same instructions in the wiki that worked so flawlessly a
> > > month ago.  I have the latest kernel headers installed.  I get as
> > > running 'rules build' and then there are some errors generated that I
> > > don't think should be there.  Output follows:
> 
> I'm starting to investigating possibly switching from a x86 based
> architecture to a PowerMac one, and I have to say that MOL looks very
> attractive to avoid the semi-regular rebooting our family have to do
> on our machine to switch between Ubuntu and Windows for all sort of
> reasons and applications.  But I'm unsure if the reality is that close
> to the sales pitch I have seen on their web page for MOL.
> 
> So is there any positive experience of Ubuntu users using MOL, either
> on Warty or Hoary?  

Yes, MOL _is_ great! I've been using it for years now. The performance
loss is small even on my aged 400Mhz G4. I often run it to use old 
Mac OS 7.5 applications that never got ported (like FrameMaker, sigh).
I sometimes even have Linux/OS 9/OS X/ running in parallel to test
some websites with as many browsers as possible. 

> It seems the only comments I have seen on the list
> are about people having  problems compiling various modules needed by
> the software; and the length of the wiki page seems to imply that it
> is not a simple process just to get it running under Ubuntu.

I can't say much about the initial setup - i've done it long ago on
a vanilla Debian. Once the modules are installed everything else is
pretty easy  (i've done a fair amount of module development so this
wasn't really scarry to me :-)
 
The only issue i have with the Ubuntu version of MOL: since the upgrade
to Ubuntu starting MOL messes up my network connectivity. Somehow the
tun/tap brings the network stack into nirvana ...

 HTH Ralf Mattes
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