Re: mac virtualization recommendation

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:03:20 -0500, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
>One thing I will mention, because I haven't seen it touched on in the
>other responses: I have had a problem with X.  Back when -current was
>still shipping with XFree86 4.5.0 (and so it was using the vesa driver
>under VMWare Fusion), I didn't have any issues (except, perhaps things
>look slightly blurry).  After -current switched to X.org and the
>vmware driver came into the mix, I have problems with X starting and/
>or exiting under both Fusion 2.0.x and 3.0.  I just tried duplicating
>this and could.  If I start X, it works fine.  When I exit, the screen
>goes blank and never returns to the console.  I don't know if this is
>because the vmware driver isn't restoring enough "hardware" state or
>something else.  I should note that VM instance is based on a 5.99.11
>build, so it does not take into account all the upgrades to X.org that
>mrg@ has committed recently.  I was planning to upgrade and re-test,
>but haven't got to it yet.  (I haven't tried substituting the vesa
>driver either, I assume that's feasible.)

I just tested an instance running 5.99.22 sources built as of the 14th,
and the problem I was seeing with X no longer occurs.  (So, thanks mrg@
for the X.org updates.)

Regards,

Dave