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Re: Running Linux in a VM

From	Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Running Linux in a VM
Date	2013-12-03 16:04 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<2g81na-e64.ln1@news.chingola.ch> (permalink)
References	<2013112717150621609-me@foonet>

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John Holt wrote:

>
> I have been using VBox, but there are some problems with VBox under 
> Mavericks.  It may be my use of Host Only networking, at least that 
> looks to be a common thread in the VBox forum.  The major complaint is 
> that it frequently prevents Mac OS X from shutting down (shutdown -h 
> now does work) in the normal manner.
>
> The minor complaint is that I cannot get the seamless window mode to 
> work, so I am stuck with some fixed size windows.
>
> Maybe now is the time to buy Parallels or Fusion.

A new version of VirtualBox arrived for me today and it has certainly
fixed my networking issues.  The Change Log also claims to have
addressed OS X shutdown problems.

<https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog>

-- 
Paul Sture

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Running Linux in a VM John Holt <me@foo.net> - 2013-11-27 17:15 -0500
  Re: Running Linux in a VM Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-12-01 09:03 +0100
    Re: Running Linux in a VM dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2013-12-01 22:38 +0000
  Re: Running Linux in a VM Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-12-01 10:51 -0500
  Re: Running Linux in a VM Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-12-03 16:04 +0100

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