Re: mac virtualization recommendation

[George Michaelson <geeohgeegeeoh%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 13/11/2009, at 10:38 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:

> 
> I have an intel macbook pro just under 2 years old, with 10.5.8.  I have
> parallels 3.0, and on booting netbsd-5 or netbsd-current it hangs after
>  atttimer0: attached to pcppi0
> 
> I turned off VT-x (thanks hubertf blog), and it seemed to work for
> netbsd-5, but now I can't repeat that feat.
> 
> What are people's current recomendations for running netbsd in a vm on a
> mac?  I would like to be able to do kernel debugging, plus use the
> netbsd system normally.  As long as a license is less than a $100-$200,
> I don't really care how much; I'd rather minimize grief.  It seems the
> plausible choices are vmware fusion and parallels.
> 

I switched to VirtualBox. Its working fine in VT mode, with ACPI.

Parallels 4 required APM mode and no VT.

I am using current (as of 2 weeks ago)

-George