Re: Ada OS based on Minix3

["Alex R. Mosteo" <alejandro@mosteo.com>]

Thomas Locke wrote:

> 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.

Using VBox here too, is a great piece of software. And, if I'm not mistaken, the virtualization part is (or started being) basically qemu's, so the emulated hardware may still be the same, and you'd get two birds in a shot.