On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:03:11AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote:
Hello,
I need a VMware internals expert urgently;
The problem is too complex to detail it here, and it may be off-topic
for most subscribers, so I'll be grateful if anybody who is expert in
VMware or knows another expert, will
Eli Marmor wrote:
Hello,
I need a VMware internals expert urgently;
The problem is too complex to detail it here, and it may be off-topic
for most subscribers, so I'll be grateful if anybody who is expert in
VMware or knows another expert, will contact me personally as soon as
possible (I
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:04:31PM +0200, Eran Tromer wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone point me to a nice cheap 802.11g wireless adapter, either PCI
or USB, that has good [1] Linux drivers and is available in Israel?
I went over the first three dozen results for wireless adapters on Zap,
and as far
Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Mon, 10 Oct:
I need a VMware internals expert urgently;
The problem is too complex to detail it here, and it may be off-topic
I know no VMware expert, but you might be interested in qemu.
Did, sounds like the guy needs urgent help with a
hi
i just passed in a store and saw a mac with OS X
it looks pretty, and i remembered i saw that a lot of linux
programs can be ported to work on OS X.
as i do not like windows, but i need it for various resons
(ms office compatibility, sites that work only on explorer etc...)
i was wondering:
It is kind of funny to follow this discussion ,because in one hand I am sure
that linux community is a very skillful.
On the other it is really really very difficult to fight its naive attitude
concerning business applications.
People prefer Window because of 2 main reasons:
1) Long ago MS has
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:34:42AM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Mon, 10 Oct:
I need a VMware internals expert urgently;
The problem is too complex to detail it here, and it may be off-topic
I know no VMware expert, but you might be
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:08:18AM +0200, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:04:31PM +0200, Eran Tromer wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone point me to a nice cheap 802.11g wireless adapter, either PCI
or USB, that has good [1] Linux drivers and is available in
Israel?
Cisco
Hi!
I'm replying best on my best knowledge. Feel free to correct me.
On Monday 10 October 2005 09:53, Erez D wrote:
hi
i just passed in a store and saw a mac with OS X
it looks pretty, and i remembered i saw that a lot of linux
programs can be ported to work on OS X.
as i do not like
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Eli Marmor wrote:
..
I'm not sure I understand what you are looking for here. If you are
after someone adept at setting up and configuring vmware, or even
interfacing to it in strange ways, then I, for example, may be able to
help you. If you are really looking
Hi Erez,
As far as I know, you can
run (recompile) most open source applications if they are not already included
in the Mac os-x (as Darwin
is based on bsd).
But as far as I know
today, there is a hardware limitation (is it?) that can allow this OS to run
only on Apple HW.
I didnt
On 10/10/05, Erez D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
as i do not like windows, but i need it for various resons
(ms office compatibility, sites that work only on explorer etc...)
i was wondering: is OS X the solution
e.g. : can it function as both linux (including all linux apps, shells,
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Eran Tromer wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone point me to a nice cheap 802.11g wireless adapter, either PCI
or USB, that has good [1] Linux drivers and is available in Israel?
I went over the first three dozen results for wireless adapters on Zap,
and as far as I can tell, not one
On 10/10/05, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What Ira said. And while you're at it, Xen is much more of a VMWare
replacement than qemu.
[snipped]
It's closed source; contact VMWare. Now if you were asking about, oh
for example, Xen... that would be a completely different answer.
On 10/10/05, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I'm replying best on my best knowledge. Feel free to correct me.
Mac OS X is Darwin with the Mac GUI, where Darwin forked from FreeBSD (and is
now maintained separetely).
This is not precise. It wasn't forked from FreeBSD.
Darwin is Mach
Hi,
I would not recommend this card so much - I have it running on Linux for
half a year now.
Beside the fact that you need to compile some binaries for it, it has
some problems that I've encountered.
Running on both FC(X) and CentOs I've encountered encryption problems -
where I had to restart
btw: can OS-X run on non mac hardware ?
Intel has recently informed that it is going to
abandon the Power-based
architecture for Intel Pentium-based ones. the new
version of Mac OS X will
run on dedicated Intel hardware. It may be available
for other computers, but
may not support
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 06:55:33PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:
On 10/10/05, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What Ira said. And while you're at it, Xen is much more of a VMWare
replacement than qemu.
[snipped]
It's closed source; contact VMWare. Now if you were asking about, oh
Eli -
Have you tried going through the manual to see if there is any mention
of the dialog box there ?
Yaacov
Eli Marmor wrote:
Snip
During any boot of a guest, a warning dialog box pops up, reminding you
to install vmware-tools (unless you disable this pop-up). Always when
it pops up,
Well, at the moment, you still cannot install Windows as guest under
Xen (unless you have the source code for windows - Hi Mainsoft people
;))
As for prices for the processors with the VM stuff built in - I expect
them to be priced a bit higher, but not that much. It won't appear so
fast in the
X86 emulation under PPC is SLOW, DOG slow! heck, when I played it on a
fast G4, I came to a conclusion that it would be simply faster and
cheaper to buy a non brand PC and use it rather then using Virtual PC.
As for OS X/86 (OS for X86) - they use an Infenion chip to protect
being running OS X/86
Dear Eli,
It might be wise to post the problem somewhere (for example -a page in
your web server) , since there are almost none internal experts in
VMWare (well, there is one, but not in Israel but in poland, he's the
guy who releases VMWare patches for the newer kernels)..
Which product do u
On Monday 10 October 2005 11:26, Alex Shnitman wrote:
btw: can OS-X run on non mac hardware ?
Intel has recently informed that it is going to
abandon the Power-based
architecture for Intel Pentium-based ones. the new
version of Mac OS X will
run on dedicated Intel hardware. It may
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:35:00AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Well, at the moment, you still cannot install Windows as guest under
Xen (unless you have the source code for windows - Hi Mainsoft people
;))
Having the source code is not nearly enough - you need to also port it
to run under Xen.
On Monday 10 October 2005 11:02, Michael Green wrote:
On 10/10/05, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I'm replying best on my best knowledge. Feel free to correct me.
Mac OS X is Darwin with the Mac GUI, where Darwin forked from FreeBSD
(and is now maintained separetely).
This
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
It's closed source; contact VMWare. Now if you were asking about, oh
for example, Xen... that would be a completely different answer.
Eli, myself, and quite a few other people here use VMWare for developing
a complete system, hardware support included. For such uses,
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:53:27AM +0200, Erez D wrote:
i just passed in a store and saw a mac with OS X
it looks pretty, and i remembered i saw that a lot of linux
programs can be ported to work on OS X.
That's because OSX consists of 2 parts. Darwin and OPEN SOURCE version of
BSD and AQUA a
Hi Shlomi,
You're right about the fact that they are not going to allow MacOS to run on
non-Apple hardware. However, they neither confirmed nor denied trying to use
DRM hardware. They may or may not do that. In any case, Mac OS X for Pentiums
will only support the particular hardware present
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:31:02AM +0200, Eli Marmor wrote:
Rather than a normal bootable (virtual) hard disk, that guest is based
on (the live-CD distro) Morphix, and the virtual hard disk (scsi0:0) is
mounted automatically during (guest) system startup.
What I would do would be to create a
First I want to thank everybody who offered me help; your help is not
needed anymore (unfortunately, not because the problem was resolved,
but because there is nothing to recover).
Summary of what happened:
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off-topic for this list, please read only if it interests you
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:37:44AM +0200, Michael Green wrote:
IE for OSX is not being developed anymore. AFAIK current (last) version is
5.2.
MS Office doesn't include all of the components of MS Office for Win
(no Access, no Outlook). Hebrew support in MS Office doesn't exist.
Not a
Hi,
Apple have adamantly stated that they're not going to
allow MacOS to run on non-Apple computers, and they're
apparently going to use some kind of DRM hardware to
try to enforce it. Given the history of DRM in the
computer industry, though, I don't see how it will
hold out for more than
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:02:20PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
It's closed source; contact VMWare. Now if you were asking about, oh
for example, Xen... that would be a completely different answer.
Eli, myself, and quite a few other people here use VMWare for
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:02:20PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Qemu does perform the hardware emulation, but is extremely slow. I don't
know how well the closed source accelerator is faring, but if I'm going
to buy something, I'll buy something that's ready.
I haven't done it on a PPC, but
Hi,
Developing processors with
Virtualization support is an attractive
idea; in this way there will no need
to patch Linux for using Xen
and this will enable using the other
OS. It will sure give the Xen project , which
is evolving rapidly, a siginificant boost.
On 10/10/05, Geoffrey S. Mendelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:37:44AM +0200, Michael Green wrote:
Hebrew support in MS Office doesn't exist.
Not a quality replacement for Windows Office imho.
Not true. I have a friend that is writing a book with Office 2004 on
his
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:04:48PM +0200, Rami Rosen wrote:
Hi,
Developing processors with Virtualization support is an attractive
idea; in this way there will no need to patch Linux for using Xen
and this will enable using the other OS. It will sure give the Xen project ,
which is
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
Qemu does perform the hardware emulation, but is extremely slow. I don't
know how well the closed source accelerator is faring, but if I'm going
to buy something, I'll buy something that's ready.
That is entirely your prerogative. The other side of the coin is
helping
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:41 +0200, Eli Marmor wrote:
1. When going to a snapshot, ALWAYS take a new snapshot before
(actually, I think that VMware had to do it automatically, by
default, and just let you skip it by a dialog box before starting to
take the new snapshot).
2. Disable
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:58:28PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
As an estimate a 2gHz G5 chip will give you about the performance of a
200-300 mHz pentium II system. Remember that VM ware does NOT emulate
the processor, it just acts as a compatibility layer for I/O.
This is misleading.
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:32:21PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
But the accelerator is not open source.
I'm talking about Xen :-)
Cheers,
Muli
--
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/
=
To
Not true. I have a friend that is writing a book with Office 2004 on
his Mac. He mixes Hebrew, Arabic, English and several other languages
in his text.
Oh?
At least according to several places I read, Mac Office 2004 does not
support hebrew RTL well. Here's a snippet from ThinkSecret web
On Monday, 10 בOctober 2005 11:53, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:35:00AM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
Well, at the moment, you still cannot install Windows as guest
under Xen (unless you have the source code for windows - Hi
Mainsoft people ;))
Having the source code is
Hi,
Para-virtualizing the OS provides a performance improvement. If
you've already done the work, why give it up?
It seems to me that there will always be people who would be
more satisfied to deal with unpatched kernel , especially in an
highly evolving and changing project like Xen.
And it
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:32:21PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
But the accelerator is not open source. Had it been, you'd hear a
totally different line of reasoning from me.
Not only that, but it's X86 only. That kind of makes it less than worthwhile,
after all do you really need an X86
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:54:04PM +0200, Oded Arbel wrote:
IIRC, Xen version 1 (or 0.something) had a Windows 2000 port done for it
(by Microsoft ?)
Microsoft Research, in Cambridge UK.
that was (obviously) never released. I think I
remember reading about it a while back, but I can't
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:08:26PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote:
In my own VMware setup, I had such a network, but I edit the files in
the host OS (Linux, of course) and when I want to compile/run, I run a
script, which copies the source files into the virtual machine and then
starts the compile
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:27:02PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Ok, let's contrast them. Bitkeeper was about storing your most vital
information in a proprietary format that wanted strange terms to get (at
least if you didn't want to put out money).
Including an http transaction
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:39:03PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
Including an http transaction to their servers everytime you did
something.
... if you were using the free version. The paid version did not log
anything to bitkeeper's servers.
It's been a while, but it was the paid
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:46:49PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Of course it only runs on X86. The whole point of the accelerator is to
bypass the need to emulate the CPU by using the real one. That's why
VMware is not as slow as Qemu (mainly).
I still don't get the point. Qemu is a
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:32:21PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
But the accelerator is not open source. Had it been, you'd hear a
totally different line of reasoning from me.
Not only that, but it's X86 only. That kind of makes it less than worthwhile,
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:32:21PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
But the accelerator is not open source. Had it been, you'd hear a
totally different line of reasoning from me.
Not only that, but it's X86 only. That kind of makes it less than
Hi,
Does anyone know whether the Mimshal Zamin (Accessible Government)
initiative makes any promises to support Mozilla? If so, is there anyone
to complain to about non-conformant government sites[1]?
[1] Such as this:
http://www.health.gov.il/units/pharmacy/trufot/abc.asp?Sr_Type=SALsafe=h
--Apple-Mail-53-324784965
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=US-ASCII;
delsp=yes;
format=flowed
Hi. Writing this from OSX :-)
i just passed in a store and saw a mac with OS X
it looks pretty, and i remembered i saw that a lot of linux
On 10/10/2005, at 11:02, Michael Green wrote:
This is not precise. It wasn't forked from FreeBSD.
Darwin is Mach kernel with FreeBSD-synchronised userspace tools.
Here is a very good site that explains about OSX and it's
relationship with FreeBSD in detail. It is meant for Linux hackers
On 10/10/2005, at 12:27, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Since 10.3 (10.4) is current, you can run X windows and manage them
with Aqua, so that they are hard to distinguish from regular Mac
programs.
Umm... No. Applications that use X11 still don't have the same feel
and the same level of
On 10/10/2005, at 12:42, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Not true. I have a friend that is writing a book with Office 2004 on
his Mac. He mixes Hebrew, Arabic, English and several other languages
in his text.
Then he probably doesn't use more than a few Hebrew words here and
there. Office
I am not sure why this got sent as HTML (I usually make sure to send
to the list as plain text). So here it is again. Sorry for the spam...
Begin forwarded message:
From: Shoshannah Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 16:50:40 GMT+02:00 10 אוקטובר 2005
To: Erez D [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Linux-IL
Quoting Geoffrey S. Mendelson, from the post of Mon, 10 Oct:
Since 10.3 (10.4) is current, you can run X windows and manage them
with Aqua, so that they are hard to distinguish from regular Mac programs.
according to at least 3 friends of mine that run X apps like GAIM on
X11-in-Aqua it's a
On 10/10/2005, at 19:01, Ira Abramov wrote:
according to at least 3 friends of mine that run X apps like GAIM on
X11-in-Aqua it's a painful, slow solution, which lacks support for
lots
of stuff (Hebrew) and tends to crash
Why run GAIM on OSX? Use Adium- it is FLOSS, uses gaim libraries
Howdie people,
I'm looking for someone (freelancer?) who had experiance GFS flavors to
come help with a short consulting job at a client of mine. I don't mind
sitting around installing OpenGFS, OCFS, and others ad nauseum, but the
client would of course prefer someone with experiance of those and
Before all you wise asses reply I just read my own post and..
On 10/10/05, Lior Kesos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
4. MPlayer OS/X: I blew a mac expert friend of mine that claimed you
couldn't see divx's with hebrew subtitles with mplayer using fribidi
to touch up the subs.
I blowed him away -
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