Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Lawrence Velázquez
On Nov 17, 2014, at 4:52 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On Monday November 17 2014 13:33:58 Michael Crawford wrote: > >> I don't think shared folders are implemented as network shares, some >> other method is used. > > Not explicitly, but in some implicit sense. I know that shared folders are

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 17, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Michael Crawford wrote: > VirtualBox' doc specifically warns that a guest might not run on a > later CPU model than Apple tested it with during development. I still > find that surprising, as all the CPU vendors work really, really hard > to enable upward compatibili

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Marko Käning
On 17 Nov 2014, at 23:56 , René J.V. Bertin wrote: >> FUS? What’s that? > Fast User Switch Oh, I’ll check that. Wondering whether that will help... > ‘night! Dito. :) ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Monday November 17 2014 23:42:03 Marko Käning wrote: > FUS? What’s that? Fast User Switch 'night! R. ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Marko Käning
Hi René, On 17 Nov 2014, at 23:37 , René J.V. Bertin wrote: > Have you tried using FUS to go to the login screen? FUS? What’s that? Greets, Marko ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman

Re: Fwd: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Monday November 17 2014 23:14:24 Marko Käning wrote: > 1) Sometimes a mouse click into the guest window catches some mouse-keyboard > feature which causes a text selection in an open bash window. Moving the > mouse around just selects the pointed to text range. There’s no way out of > it,

Fwd: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Marko Käning
Hi Michael, On 17 Nov 2014, at 22:59 , Michael Crawford wrote: > I don't recall what the actual panic message was, I'll give it a try > again sometime soon. this kernel panic is exactly the issue I was running into as well at the time on my i7-iMac. :-/ > I used to use Parallels quite a bit -

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Michael Crawford
If as you speculate, xnu is panicking just because it sees an unexpected CPU class, I wonder if one could write a guest extension that would prevent that from happening. While Mac OS X kernel extensions are mostly used for device drivers, they can be used to "hot patch" any part of the kernel you

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Monday November 17 2014 13:33:58 Michael Crawford wrote: > I don't think shared folders are implemented as network shares, some > other method is used. Not explicitly, but in some implicit sense. I know that shared folders are treated that way in Windows guests running in VirtualBox. > I wa

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Dominik Reichardt
I'm running OS X 10.5 Server, 10.6 Server, 10.7 and 10.8 in VMWare Fusion. Been doing that since running OS X 10.7 as host and am now at 10.10. You can download Fusion and trial it before paying and get an unlock code (AFAIR you need to register to receive the trial unlock code). I'm using Fusi

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Michael Crawford
I don't think shared folders are implemented as network shares, some other method is used. However if you do export a host folder as a share, your guest should be able to mount it. I was about to say that the folder is made to look like a regular disk drive but I'm not so sure, that would require

utmp and screen software

2014-11-17 Thread Raoul
Hello, Yosemite (10.10) deprecated utmp i flavour of utmpx. but the screen software still uses utmp. according to the doc (pututxent) i tried a quick and dirty hack: (getUtxEnt(line)) followed by putUtxEnt(line); it is running, but no utmp is created. i need it, waiting that screen will integra

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Marko Käning
Hi Michael, eventually I had to purchase Parallels 9 because VirtualBox wouldn’t allow to successfully run Mavericks guests on my Mavericks host running on an i7-iMac. Parallels usually works fine if you _disable_ power saving on the guests!! Sometimes but I experience hanging guests! Only chanc

Re: Archives and version updates

2014-11-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
> On Nov 17, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Artur Szostak wrote: > >>> I have managed to build my own MacPorts archive for some software we are >>> want to try distribute to our Mac users. However, I wonder how one is >>> supposed to deal with version updates to the software. The documentation is >>> clea

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Monday November 17 2014 11:08:55 Craig Treleaven wrote: > I tried VirtualBox without success. Parallels Desktop 9 has worked > well for me. All I want to do is use MacPorts in the VM's to test > building/installing/testing software (MythTV) under different OS > versions. What is your host

RE: Archives and version updates

2014-11-17 Thread Artur Szostak
>> I have managed to build my own MacPorts archive for some software we are >> want to try distribute to our Mac users. However, I wonder how one is >> supposed to deal with version updates to the software. The documentation is >> clear enough about updating the Portfiles. But how is the archive

Re: Archives and version updates

2014-11-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 17, 2014, at 9:07 AM, Artur Szostak wrote: > I have managed to build my own MacPorts archive for some software we are want > to try distribute to our Mac users. However, I wonder how one is supposed to > deal with version updates to the software. The documentation is clear enough > abou

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 17, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Craig Treleaven wrote: > Parallels Desktop provides a shared folder between the host and each guest > but I don't think that is what you are talking about. > > Speaking of the shared folder, I tried to point the MacPorts port tree to a > folder on the host. SVN co

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 17, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Michael wrote: > I'd like to know what VM's are able to run OS X, and how well. > > First, being able to run 10.6 as a guest -- it's my understanding that this > was technically possible, but restricted by the license, and the main VM's > check for and refuse to ru

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Craig Treleaven
At 7:20 AM -0800 11/17/14, Michael wrote: I'd like to know what VM's are able to run OS X, and how well. I tried VirtualBox without success. Parallels Desktop 9 has worked well for me. All I want to do is use MacPorts in the VM's to test building/installing/testing software (MythTV) under d

Re: Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Nov 17, 2014, at 7:20 AM, Michael wrote: > I'd like to know what VM's are able to run OS X, and how well. All the VM solutions have worked well for me, I currently use VirtualBox. > First, being able to run 10.6 as a guest -- it's my understanding that this > was technically possible, but

Virtual machines and OS X

2014-11-17 Thread Michael
I'd like to know what VM's are able to run OS X, and how well. First, being able to run 10.6 as a guest -- it's my understanding that this was technically possible, but restricted by the license, and the main VM's check for and refuse to run this. (Sniff ... PPC programs ... photoshop elements,

Archives and version updates

2014-11-17 Thread Artur Szostak
Dear MacPorts experts, I have managed to build my own MacPorts archive for some software we are want to try distribute to our Mac users. However, I wonder how one is supposed to deal with version updates to the software. The documentation is clear enough about updating the Portfiles. But how is

Re: mystonline-wine install problems

2014-11-17 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 17, 2014, at 1:18 AM, Kevin Burnett wrote: > Hi, hope someone can help me with this… I have been trying to install Myst > Online through MacPorts, using the mystonline-wine package. Hi Kevin, thanks for writing; I didn't know anyone was still using my Myst Online ports. I haven't done m

Re: mystonline-wine install problems

2014-11-17 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Kevin Burnett wrote: > :debug:main No nee > > Yes, it ends on “No nee”, and it sits on that for hours. > Use "port -d" so it logs the debug output to the terminal, possibly running under script(1); the default buffering strategy for output to files is block-based

Re: Can't upgrade, install or uninstall port

2014-11-17 Thread Clemens Lang
On November 17, 2014 2:11:21 AM CET, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >Sounds like MacPorts is still working on doing what you asked it to do >before (upgrade outdated ports). You could confirm in Activity Monitor >whether a "port" process is still running. Assuming there is, you could >wait for it to complet