Ever since I bought my rarely-used Mac Mini, I've wished I could just drop OS X on my super-beefy Linux+Windows development machine. I hate having to have two keyboards, a monitor with two inputs, two mice or a switch, just to use OS X once in a while. And there's no way I'm giving up my model M for development.
Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests
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Re: Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests
#32Ever since I bought my rarely-used Mac Mini, I've wished I could just drop OS X on my super-beefy Linux+Windows development machine. I hate having to have two keyboards, a monitor with two inputs, two mice or a switch, just to use OS X once in a while. And there's no way I'm giving up my model M for development.
You can use synergy to share keyboard / mouse between Linux, Windows and OSX. I use it between an Ubuntu desktop and a MacBook Pro. http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
Re: Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests
#33I can only hope the OS X support will work in Windows 7 x64.
My desktop is a monster of a machine, my 2,1 revision MacBook Pro, not so much.
Re: Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
So far, so good, but it's still got 30 minutes to go.. http://skitch.com/petercooper/dbe31/virtualbox-os-x-2
So, it finished OK: http://skitch.com/petercooper/dbjk1/osxundervbox No hacks either! :-) Had some issues with a dirty disc on the way.. and it totally refused to use an ISO.
Nice!
Re: Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests
#35Unfortunately, it's kind of a deal-breaker that each Mac OS X guest burns 100% CPU all the time. This is mentioned in the new user guide as something which will be fixed in a future release.