[Elecraft] Running Mac on Windows
I have found Virtual Box is great at testing and using various OSes from one machine without rebooting. I have one box running eight different OSes when I want them. Linux in its many flavors, Windows of various generations, Mac OSes of various eras, and my latest find: Haiku. For those of you familiar with BeOS Haiku will be a pleasant foray into the past. After Be went out of business many programmers decided not to let to OS die. So they, like Linus Torvalds, took it upon themselves to rewrite the code in open source form. Haiku is their model of BeOS. It works surprisingly well and mounting all of my NTFS files is automatic. It runs well under Virtual Box too. Please install and try Virtual Box on your machines to allow you to use legacy code on each of your boxes. Kevin. KD5ONS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Running Mac on Windows
I presume Kevin is referring to Oracle VirtualBox. If that is the case, I have to report that I was unable to run FLDIGI under Ubuntu 11.10 in the VM because it would not properly communicate with a PCI board slotted into my MoBo to provide serial I/O. I moved the Linux to a separate hard drive in a dual-boot configuration, and in this instance it runs perfectly well. I was not able to pinpoint the source of difficulty with Ubuntu running in the VM vis-a-vis FLDIGI, although otherwise it was perfectly satisfactory. John Ragle -- W1ZI = On 5/22/2012 4:41 PM, kevinr wrote: snipI have found Virtual Box is great at testing and using various OSes from one machine without rebooting./snip __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Running Mac on Windows
Thanks for the tip, Kevin. Tim Herrick, KQ8M Charter Member North Coast Contesters k...@kq8m.com AR-Cluster V6 kq8m.no-ip.org User Ports: 23, 7373 with local skimmer, 7374 without local skimmer Server Ports: V6 3607, V4 Active 3605, V4 Passive 3606 -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of kevinr Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 4:42 PM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Running Mac on Windows I have found Virtual Box is great at testing and using various OSes from one machine without rebooting. I have one box running eight different OSes when I want them. Linux in its many flavors, Windows of various generations, Mac OSes of various eras, and my latest find: Haiku. For those of you familiar with BeOS Haiku will be a pleasant foray into the past. After Be went out of business many programmers decided not to let to OS die. So they, like Linus Torvalds, took it upon themselves to rewrite the code in open source form. Haiku is their model of BeOS. It works surprisingly well and mounting all of my NTFS files is automatic. It runs well under Virtual Box too. Please install and try Virtual Box on your machines to allow you to use legacy code on each of your boxes. Kevin. KD5ONS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
