[TriLUG] Vbox guest OS choices

[Ken MacKenzie]

Yes, this is hypothetical.  So sounds like it does not cooperate well as a
guest.  I really need to take more steps to completely ditch all non FOSS
compatible hardware in my household.  It has just been a slow fight...

Ken


On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Brian <lugmail at cheetah.dynip.com> wrote:

> I've tried this too, as I wanted to get into iOS development without the
> major capital investment for a Mac.  I've tried VirtualBox and bare-metal
> installations, both on a ThinkPad T60p.  I can vouch for Ken's report that
> performance within a VM is abysmal to the point of being nearly unusable.
>  Bare metal, the performance is quite decent, but I was never able to get
> the App Store to authenticate.
>
> ~B
>
>
> On 7/10/2014 10:18 AM, Ken Mink wrote:
>
>> I used VBox is install OSX as a guest, mostly just to see if it was
>> possible. It is. However, the performance was crappy. There were
>> problems with the mouse. The pointer jumped around the screen. One
>> reason I wanted to try it was to use Messages.app for iMessage access.
>> Turns out that Messages.app uses your hardware serial number as part of
>> it's registration and the OSX guest doesn't have a valid serial number.
>> The Messages.app running on the OSX guest would not connect for
>> iMessage. Anyway, it is possible to create a OSX guest, but usability
>> sucked for me. Oh yeah, this was done on a MacBookPro8,1 running Ubuntu
>> 12.04 as the host.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> On 07/10/2014 09:46 AM, Ken MacKenzie wrote:
>>
>>> So I have been trying to kill out the use of hardware windows installs in
>>> the house.  It has been an issue mainly because of a printer/scanner
>>> combo
>>> (lexmark X75) that will just not cooperate with linux.  Yes I know I need
>>> to get a new printer, but hey it works and ink cost is still reasonably
>>> low.
>>>
>>> So anyway to mitigate this I have been using a Windows 7 install inside
>>> virtual box.  I am using the oracle repos for it, linux version is Debian
>>> Wheezy.  Windows 7 version is ultimate incidentally.  The other reason I
>>> went this route is itunes for my ipad to sync if needed.  I am phasing
>>> out
>>> ipad use at some point most likely so this may become moot.
>>>
>>> Anyway, and I hope I am not violating any rules since this discussion
>>> starts to enter the violating EULA for the OS in question...  What about
>>> virtualizing OS X.  I mean I know it can be done but I am wondering if
>>> anyone has experience for the performance of OS X vs Windows 7
>>> virtualized
>>> through Virtual Box.  I know OS X is only to be installed on Mac
>>> hardware.
>>>   Just wondering if anyone has tried this out and what their results
>>> were.
>>>
>>> Ken
>>>
>>
>>
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