Intel Based Macs and DMD?

[John Reimer]

Anders F Björklund wrote:
> John Reimer wrote:
> 
>> If you had access to an intel machine (not a mac), you could just get 
>> the vmplayer and try it yourself, no?
> 
> Thanks for this suggestion! This "VMWare Player" is really nice with
> premade images, might even consider getting VMWare Workstation now...
> (still using Virtual PC, I'm afraid, which didn't want to run Darwin)
> 


It is a great tool.  I purchased VMWare Workstation a year or two ago 
and have not regretted the purchase.  You can even boot OS's off a real 
drive from inside a virtual machine.  I love the USB support too. 
Inside Linux, if you plug a USB drive into a USB port while the vm is in 
focus, that drive gets automatically detected and mounted within the VM 
client.


> However, new Darwin 8 is *much* less polished than what Darwin 7 was.
> This is probably because OpenDarwin has run into some "troubles"...
> (see the recent story http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200602/apple.html)
> 


8 is much less polished?  Wow, that's strange. I'll have to read the 
story behind that.  Thanks for the link.


> I'm just going to quote some starter commands here, rest is off-topic:
> ifconfig en1 192.168.13.100
> route add default 192.168.13.2
> echo 'nameserver 192.168.13.2' > /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> So I see why you had problems with it, I can't even get DNS to work!
> (above *should* do the trick, but only works with dig - not curl ?)
> But playing with the /etc/hosts file, I at least got DarwinPorts up.
> 
> 


Well, I hadn't much of a clue how to set these things up.  I know very 
little of Darwin and the BSD's (although I've played a little with 
FreeBSD in the past).  I imagine there are wikis or tutorials online 
somewhere for setting things up, but it doesn't look at all easy.


> DarwinPorts is at http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/, it has X11:
> http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/downloads/DarwinPorts-1.2.tar.gz
> port -d selfupdate && port install xorg


Hmm... Interesting.  Good to know. I may actually try this eventually. 
Thank you.


> Setting up the rest of Darwin/X86 is not really interesting here,
> so I will just post later on if I get GDC 0.17 tried out on it...
> But it won't really be useful for any Mac OS X testing, it seems.
> 
> --anders


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-JJR