Re: mac virtualization recommendation

[Jeff Rizzo <riz%tastylime.net@localhost>]

On Nov 12, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:

> I have an intel macbook pro just under 2 years old, with 10.5.8.  I  
> have
> parallels 3.0, and on booting netbsd-5 or netbsd-current it hangs  
> after
>  atttimer0: attached to pcppi0
>
> I turned off VT-x (thanks hubertf blog), and it seemed to work for
> netbsd-5, but now I can't repeat that feat.
>
> What are people's current recomendations for running netbsd in a vm  
> on a
> mac?  I would like to be able to do kernel debugging, plus use the
> netbsd system normally.  As long as a license is less than a $100- 
> $200,
> I don't really care how much; I'd rather minimize grief.  It seems the
> plausible choices are vmware fusion and parallels.

I've been using VMWare Fusion successfully for a while now - (v2;  
haven't upgraded to v3), but I don't use X at all under netbsd so I  
have no idea how well it works (or doesn't).  I run netbsd/i386 and  
netbsd/amd64 successfully - 4, 5, and a very recent -current.

(I've also used Parallels, but not in almost 2 years)

+j