KVM on Ubuntu: what guest OSes?

[Bill Marcum]

On 2009-05-05, dwain <dwain.alford at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
>> <mihamina at lab.vectoris.fr> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > I would like to setup a KVM host which will have:
>> > - Windows (I dont know what flavour yet)
>> > - MacOS (The most recent woul be the best for me)
>> > Does it work on KVM?
>> > Any experience to share in here?
>> > Thank you.
>>
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> don't know if your switch would support mac os.  you would have to check
> with the manufacturer.  i have a cables to go 4 port kvm that ran ubuntu
> 8.10 and windows xp home and pro.  had a logitech wireless trackball and ps2
> keyboard connected with no problems.
>
> cheers,
> dwain
>
What we have here is a case of dueling abbreviations. KVM can be a 
hardware Keyboard-Video-Mouse switch, or software Kernel-based Virtual 
Machine.