Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy as virtual machine guest on os x on intel

[Brian McKee]

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On 7-Nov-07, at 1:53 PM, Jason Joines wrote:

>     Well, I've pretty much given up on getting Linux to run  
> natively on
> an intel apple xserve.  It seems apple made sure the firmware on the
> xserve ( unlike on their other intel products ) won't allow th BIOS
> emulation needed to boot another OS.
>
>     Now on to running Linux as a virtual guest.  VMWare Fusion (
> http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion ) just came out.  There's also
> VirtualBox ( http://www.virtualbox.org ), the Q port (
> http://www.kju-app.org/kju ) of QEMU, and Bochs (
> http://bochs.sourceforge.net ).
>     Anyone have any experience running Linux in these under os x?  Any
> other options?  I've used Bochs and QEMU and VMWare Server to run
> windows guests on Linux hosts in the past and found both Bochs and  
> QEMU
> to be really slow.  Right now I plan to test the demo of VMWare Fusion
> and VirtualBox.  I hope VirtualBox performs as well as VMWare  
> Fusion as
> there is a GPL version of it.


I'm playing with Gutsy under Parallels www.parallels.com on an iMac  
as we speak....  Turns out you have to install from the alternate CD  
rather than the live one, or X issues arise.  I've only had it  
running about 1/2 hour now so can't say a whole lot more, but  
performance seems fine.

Brian
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