On 8 Jan 2008, at 16:51, David Golden wrote:
On Jan 8, 2008 9:32 AM, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:30:29PM -0500, David Golden wrote:
I'm trying to get a
virtual machine smoking rig going at home -- doing so will be
motivation to extend/fix CPAN::Reporter in helpful ways like that.
If you're of a Maccish persuasion, then I recommend Parallels, even
though it's payware. Or if you're happier with Linux, then I believe
that the most recent Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora all Just Work with xen
straight out of the box and have all the relevant stuff available as
packages.
(dodgy quoting - I don't have DC's original mail)
I was using Parallels but when I moved to Leopard it wouldn't boot
some previously working VMs and started to feel a bit, well,
reluctant. Stalled the whole machine for ages while booting Windows
that kind of thing.
I switched to VMWare Fusion which happily sucked up all my Parallels
VMs, seems faster and more importantly smoother. I'm not sure what the
real explanation is but Parallels felt as if it was making big chunks
of Mac OS block quite frequently.
(Mac? I wish.)
I have Ubuntu at home and It's a little more complicated than "just
works" but I installed VirtualBox packages from their site and that
"just works". I have a Damn Small Linux (DSL) machine with gcc and
libs added and compiled perls 5.6.2, 5.8.8, and 5.10.0 (each in
threaded and non-threaded versions.) I need to get CPAN::Reporter
configured, need some sort of smoker (custom or Barbie's shiny new
YACSmoke) and then some way to control the whole rig. I'm planning on
using a minicpan mirror for them so I'm not downloading the same
packages from the net over and over again.
I'm curious what other people are doing.
Free VMWare Server on Ubuntu running two FreeBSD VMs
VMWare Fusion on Mac OS with CentOS, Debian, FreeBSD, Ubuntu,
OpenSolaris, Windows XP x 2 VMs
My inner geek gets a kick out of being able to carry so many OSs
around on my laptop :)
--
Andy Armstrong, Hexten
