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Excuse a newbie... is it worth trying Ubuntu on Mac with VirtualBox? What should I know? (-: Please don't flame me. I might like ports as much as apt, if I kne
by berntb 17y ago
Excuse a newbie... is it worth trying Ubuntu on Mac with VirtualBox? What should I know?
(-: Please don't flame me. I might like ports as much as apt, if I knew it better. :-)
- jodrellblank 17y agoVirtualBox on the Mac is very nice. A respectably small download, an easy install, a pleasant GUI, it feels very polished and in my light use, both featureful and stable. Yes, try it.
- neilc 17y agoDoes anyone have any experience with how VirtualBox performance compares with VMWare?
- gsergrtbnhrts 17y agoThere is a review here http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/virtualization-showdown-vmware-workstation-vs-sun-xvm-virtualbox-735 http://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/virtualization-sho... Basically they are all pretty similar, if you use it in a serious environment there are probably more tools and consultants that will tune Vmware server for you, but for ordinary use it's probably a wash.
- papaf 17y agoI recently made the change from Macports to Ubuntu on VirtualBox. Things are much nicer now. My one tip would be to have any datafiles separate (ie not read/write files on the Mac filesystem directly - even though you can) and communicate between the two "machines" using version control.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoI think this is the way to go for everyone newbie or not. If you're not going to be deploying on OS X then why develop under it. VirtualBox with your deployment system on Mac OS X gives you the best of all possible worlds.
- berntb 17y agoI work on Linux, Mac is a hobby. It is a bit of a failure to go the virtual way, but I have too little background on (modern) bsd stuff.