Re: Virtualization Question

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 16:53 -0400, Ben Holland wrote: 
> So I am rather stuck. I want to run linux on my home computer and not just 
> on my laptop, but there is a catch. I have a mac, that boots with efi (like 
> all new ones do) and windows because I have to have it for work. I tried 
> installing it natively but I must have done something wrong because I could 
> get it to install fine, but efi would never boot into it so I let it alone, 
> content with my OS X and windows. FYI for people who don't know about efi, 
> it allows 4 partitions on the boot hard drive and no more. 1 is dedicated 
> for the boot stuff, and 3 for other misc stuff. So basically I would have to 
> install linux with a single partition on the main drive, no swap, no boot, 
> and offload anything I find important to another drive. I have 4 drives in 
> it and I can dedicate a full one to linux without a problem. 
> 
> So my question is 2 fold, 1) Should I go virtual and deal with all the fun 
> and joy associated with that problem, or 2) Say I am going to run natively 
> and just do it. 
> 
> I was wondering if people who had linux on macs, had anything like my setup 
> and could point me to web sights or if someone could recommend a good 
> virtualization platform for me. I tried xen, downloaded it, configured it, 
> and then I tried to boot up the fedroia installer and it crashed with an 
> error telling me that I didn't have the correct kernel for my procs. I got 
> the x64 stable fedoria. Should I perhaps try again? 
> 
> My mac is a mac pro, quad core, intel xenons, plenty of ram and hard drive 
> space. 
> 
> What distro would be simplest to at least try to install in all of this, at 
> least to get running. I am personally a fedoria man myself, but to just get 
> linux on my computer i'm willing to try just about anything. Thanks. ~Ben