Re: mac virtualization recommendation

[Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek%sky.cz@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 08:38:06PM -0500, 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.

FWIW, I've used Parallels Desktop 4 with NetBSD 4 and it has worked fine,
though I don't run X inside Parallels.
I've since upgraded to Parallels Desktop 5 and it also works fine. My
hardware is VT-x capable.

Jaromir
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