-- /Jacob Carlborg On 21 feb 2011, at 05:11, Sean Kelly wrote:
> OSX desktop won't virtualize--the vm vendors enforce the license. Could use > OSX server instead, but... Just for the record, there are ways around that. > 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 _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
