I can see how you'd be able to quickly flip between systems running in parallel with this approach, but how well does it fare with regards to seamless windowing? Allowing multiple apps from more than one OS to all show distinct windows on the same screen at the same time, in the same fashion as parallels, virtualbox, eXceed, or even Citrix Metaframe.
On 5 November 2010 13:33, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]>wrote: > On 11/05/2010 02:11 PM, Casper Bang wrote: > >> Interesting! Ideally we should all run a minimum lightweight host OS a >> la EFI, with (multiple, simultaneous) virtual image sessions on top. >> I'd assume with modern hardware and virtualization support, the >> overhead would say marginal. >> >> Do you have mind-reading capabilities? :-) It's precisely one of the > things that I'm experimenting with. Since I have to keep on working with my > laptop (and running the thing on an experimental setup doesn't make sense > since it wouldn't be exercised by my normal workflow), I'm doing in steps: > > 1. First, have four partitions: three for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows 7 and > one data partition > 2. Then, be able to boot in any of the three o.ses and run the others in a > virtual machine (but using the physical partitions, so all the setups are > shared). > > At the moment I can boot in Linux and run Mac OS X in a virtual machine > (*), or run Mac OS X in a virtual machine and boot Linux in a VM. There are > some glitches to fix, and then I'll move on with Windows. > > The recurrent problem is the data partition. There's basically no feasible > solution to have a shared, native filesystem mountable with no problems by > all the three o.ses. Thus, what makes sense is to choose a filesystem > mountable by one of the o.ses (e.g. ext4 and Linux) and running Linux in a > VM, sharing the partition e.g. by NFS or such. Of course, it's a waste to > run a whole Linux box just to share a filesystem, and I'm trying to have > just a very turimmed down kernel. I suppose I should be able to do that with > a very small memory footprint. > > The aim of all this is to be as free as possible from any operating system, > keeping the capability of running any of them when you need it for some > reason (probably, I could do just with Linux and Mac OS X, but I think it > makes sense to add Windows 7 for completeness). > > BTW, at this point, it would be nice to know if anybody else has tried the > same, or knows something like that. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > > [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
