On Nov 23, 2007 8:39 AM, David Chisnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 23 Nov 2007, at 16:25, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
>
> >  You mean 11/28 ?
>
> Yup.
>
> >  It's 11AM here and I can make it.
> >  Since it is work hour, I may walk away from time to time during the
> > meeting.
>
> Would later or earlier be easier for you?

  Not really, since it is in the middle of the day.
  I only need to walk away while my boss wants to talk with me,
  which may not happen at all.

  Yen-Ju

>
> >  I am going to get a new macbook,
> >  which will make it easier for me to work on Etoile.
>
> Good news.
>
> >  I can polish some small stuffs here and there.
> >  To me, most important thing is CoreObject + EtoileUI for FOSDEM.
>
> Completely agree.
>
> >  Anyone has opinions on VMware Fusion or Parallel for development
> > (probably with FreeBSD) ?
> >  I used VirtualPC before and it is slow on harddisk-intensive task,
> > like compiling.
> >  I wonder whether it is improved in VMware Fusion or Parallel.
> >  I really don't like to dual-boot again.
>
> I currently use a separate machine (Thinkpad R31) for Étoilé
> development.  I have a habit of doing things that kill X periodically,
> so working over SSH is convenient.  I could probably do the same thing
> with a VM, but currently none of them have good support for graphics
> hardware which makes things like the composite extension very slow
> (and Apple's X11 doesn't support Composite or Render so I can't use it
> for remote access although apparently Xephyr now runs on OS X so that
> might be an option).
>
> I tried using Parallels but I found regular kernel panics to be
> somewhat distracting.  Apparently this was caused by their
> misunderstanding how IPIs worked.  They claim it's fixed now, but I'm
> not running any ring-0 code written by people who don't RTFM before
> releasing again.  I've heard good things about VirtualBox, which has
> the advantage of being free (and Free for a slightly limited version).
>
> David
>
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