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I wonder how performance compares to VMWare? The last time I tried OSX in a VMWare session it was so slow that it was useless.

• garply 17y ago
  I'm trying to do it right now, I'll let you know when I've succeeded. Unfortunately, the packaging is in rpm format and my distro doesn't support it (well, I can install rpm, but it appears to be broken, so I have to hack around).
  • antidaily 17y ago
    10.5 or 10.6?
    • garply 17y ago
      10.6
  • bcl 17y ago
    Take a look at alien for converting the rpm, or rpm2cpio for extracting the tar.gz inside it.
• sailormoon 17y ago
  Might have something to do with how "heavy" OSX's graphics are, to the extent it really requires graphics acceleration to just draw normal windows. VMWare can't pass that through to the graphics card in the correct way, so it's really, really slow. I'm pretty interested in running OSX in a VMWare container for some command line operations, though. I would like to use OSX to do some media manipulation and webkit work that would be an ultra-pain on Linux but is fairly simple on OSX, but I want it on "normal" hardware, so I'll be looking into stuff like this (when it's shaken down a bit more ..)