On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 16:13, Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Lee Bengston wrote: > >> I haven't created any new VirtualBox VM's for distribution with >> Xastir, however, since last September. Would there be any interest in >> a new VirtualBox VM with all of Xastir's current goodies? I have no >> desire to go back to VMware. > > The only concern I'd have is: What OS'es are supported by > VirtualBox? Do they support OSX? I know there's already an OSX > Xastir binary with the latest goodies, but perhaps some would prefer > running a virtual machine? Don't really know.
FWIW, I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on OSX with the latest VMware Fusion. The "easy install" option will automatically click all the install process buttons (granted Ubuntu only has a few) and install the vmware tools. Completely painless. It took about 10 minutes to go from .iso to installed Ubuntu with working vmware tools. They've really improved lately in this regard. Last week for work I built a development environment for internal distribution. Rather than using a virtual machine, I built a customized Ubuntu distribution (live-cd with install option). This turned out to be really easy (albeit probably more difficult than building a .deb, and much less bandwidth-efficient). I just followed this instructions on the Ubuntu wiki. This would be a pretty easy way to distribute Xastir packaged with an OS. Because it's based on Ubuntu, VMware still recognizes it and is able to use the "easy install" option, if that's how you choose to use it. The .iso could also be used for a xastir live-cd or normal Ubuntu installation on dedicated hardware. Tom KD7LXL _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
