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Please do write up how your Air holds up to that kind of abuse! If the system doesn't cry (Airs don't have a lot of hardware in them) this sounds quite excellen
by bluehat 14y ago
Please do write up how your Air holds up to that kind of abuse! If the system doesn't cry (Airs don't have a lot of hardware in them) this sounds quite excellent.
To be honest though, I don't totally understand how this headless Linux runs graphical Linux in your mac without going into the X11/Lion rage area.
- buu700 14y agoAbuse? A headless vm running in the background is hardly a major drain on resources... You'll have to partition off a slice of RAM (half a gig to a gig should suffice), and the CPU will have a little more work to do, but realistically there won't be a significant performance difference. The magic here is SSH and X forwarding, which basically runs the non-graphical side of the application in the vm and the graphical side in the X client. Here's an example of X forwarding an application remotely: http://buu700.com/xforward http://buu700.com/xforward If you decide to use this approach, let me know if you need any help with anything.
- bluehat 14y agoYes, however, maybe this is just me, but Lion wrecked a lot of standard Linux stuff running in X11 (for example, the selector tool in GIMP, it just doesn't work) and under this setup I don't see how you are getting around those issues unless you plan to run OSX Snow Leopard...
- buu700 14y agoThe point is that it's all running in Linux, not OS X.