Re: Ada OS based on Minix3

[Thomas Locke <thomas@kenshi.dk>]

Martin Krischik wrote:
> I knew that this question would come ;-) - The answer is simple: Xen is
> not available for Window and Mac OS X hosts - together they amount to
> 90% of all desktop OS.
> 
> While Ada programmer are not like the average user and are more likely
> to use Linux shutting out Windows and Mac OS X would still shut out a
> lot of potential users and beta testers.
> 
> And even on Linux it is not all that easy. I can install a VMware Player
> in no time on Linux but never quite succeeded in getting Xen to work.
> Even with SuSE Linux which comes with a Xen plug-in for Yast.

How about Virtualbox then:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

It's fairly light, supports a wide range of platforms, there's an OS 
edition, and it works extremely well.

I can highly recommend Virtualbox, and I've only been using it for a few 
months. I moved to Virtualbox from VMware. I find that Virtualbox is 
easier to get going (running Slackware 12.1), lighter on resources and 
faster. It's basically just a very nice piece of software.

Oh, and the docs are quite extensive, which is very nice.

:o)
/Thomas