OSX desktop won't virtualize--the vm vendors enforce the license. Could use OSX server instead, but...
I'll sort out OSX testing this week with brad. It will just be a matter of some setup on my end. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 20, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Brad Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/20/2011 6:00 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >> >> >> Brad Roberts wrote: >>> On 2/20/2011 5:25 PM, David Simcha wrote: >>> >>>> What's wrong with virtualization as a solution to the one-box-per-platform >>>> problem? Just use your favorite OS as your >>>> host, get a ton of RAM, and run all the rest in VMs. >>>> >>> >>> It's a solution, but not a great one. The build runs are already cpu >>> bound, so diving up the cpu's just means >>> everything goes slower. >>> >>> >> >> My experience with virtual boxes is they get wiped out every time you do an >> update on the host. Extremely annoying. I >> use a separate box per OS. Something to do with the old machines around here >> :-) > > Your experience, of once. Let's just say that I've got a bit of experience > running virtualized environments (I do work > in amazon's ec2 org after all). I'd consider it if I had boxes large enough > to be worth subdividing. On the other > hand, freebsd until 8.2-rc1 (and pre-releases of 9, ie, no released) doesn't > support running on xen. osx's license > doesn't allow running it virtualized, if I remember right. That just leaves > opensolaris which does run on top of xen, > but I've never tried it myself. > > Anyway.. just need to add osx, which Sean is helping with, and we'll have all > of our primary platforms auto-testing d2. > > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
