[TriLUG] Vbox guest OS choices

[Kevin Hunter Kesling]

At 10:18am -0400 Thu, 10 Jul 2014, 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.

I've yet to be able to find the time to /successfully/ (but I have 
unsuccessfully tried!) get OS X running in VBox.  I'm curious from one 
who did get it running: do you know why the performance was so crappy? 
My first hunch would be OS X's graphic heavy nature, which I assume it 
accelerates with hardware.  Without direct hardware access ...

On the same line of thought, if one were to go headless, and treat the 
system as merely an ssh enabled box, would the performance be as crappy? 
  For compilation purposes, for example?

> 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.

That's a bummer.  It's often been said that Apple is first a hardware 
company, so this move makes sense, but is also frustrating, both from an 
end-user flexibility and a big brother standpoint.

Kevin