For macs
If you have an intel processor mac, then use boot camp, and make
your system a dual boot, so that you can run Windows natively. That
way you only need to enjoy the bugs that Windows itself possesses, and
not conflicts between software running virtually.
Dennis, have you ported your software to Darwin (the Mac variant of
BSD)?
Otherwise natively on a mac, you can use some of the R libraries from
Ian Dryden (Shapes package).
Cheers
Ian
On 10/10/2007, morphmet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Curious. This is the second time this week this question has come across
> my screen. Here is a summary of my experience:
>
> 1) For several years I have been happily running WinXP in a VMWare
> Workstation 4.0 virtual machine on top of Linux. No problems with any of
> the morphometrics software. Also, there is no significant performance
> reduction running in a virtual machine for the data sets with which I
> regularly work.
>
> 2) For a while, I tried VirtualPC on a powerbook and, if I recall
> correctly, there were no problems running the morphometrics packages.
> However, since VirtualPC had to emulate an Intel chip on a Motorola
> architecture, performance was slow. That should not be such a problem
> now since the newer Apples run Intel chips.
>
> 3) Out of curiosity, I installed a number of OSs on VirtualBox virtual
> machines the other week: WinXP, openSuse 10.2, ubuntu 7.?, DOS (I have
> to try GRF-ND now). There were some initial stability problems, but the
> seem to have worked themselves out after a few reboots and things were
> running well enough for me to install and test the new Morpheus under
> each Linux OS without problem.
>
> 4) I know nothing of Parallels.
>
> For me, I decided the stability and a feature that allows the virtual
> machine's screen to expand to fill my laptop display made it worth the
> small educational investment in VMWare. The latter is important for my
> lectures. VirtualBox does not do this, but looked like a good (and free)
> option otherwise.
>
> What does this Linux stuff have to do with Apples? At its heart, the
> Apple OS is a version of Unix. So the observations above should apply to
> Apples.
>
> I would recommend the student try VirtualBox first since it is a freebie.
>
> For more info:
> VMWARE
> http://www.vmware.com
> (current workstation version 6.0, very stable, Mac version is Fusion)
>
> VIRTUALBOX
> http://www.virtualbox.org
> open-source freebie.
> Here's a pic running on a Mac:
> http://http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wiki/Screenshots/VirtualBox_OSX_beta_255c.png
>
> VirtualPC
> http://www.connectix.com/
> Haven't tried this in a long time.
>
> Parallels
> http://www.parallels.com/
> No experience.
>
> -dslice
>
> morphmet wrote:
> > In order to follow the (green) book by Zelditch et al. closely, a
> > student new to geometric morphometrics would like to try a Windows
> > emulator --VMware or Parallels--to use the Windows software on her Mac.
> >
> > Can anyone comment on either of these emulators and their use with this
> > software? Are there any incompatibilities or glitches we should be alert
> > to? (I understand that the emulators are being upgraded with new
> > versions on a very frequent basis, so it's possible that problems are
> > actively being remedied.)
> >
>
> --
> Dennis E. Slice
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Vienna
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