[Discuss] Why use Linux? (back to original question)

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

> "I've never needed to use QEMU on Macintosh. Therefore QEMU works great on
> Macintosh, and anyone whose experience says differently is wrong."
>
> Interesting logic.

Whom are you quoting?

>
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:58 AM, <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:
>
>> > markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> >> SSH does not do this on Mac easily. Yes, if you configure the
>> >> bastardized
>> >> X server that you can get for Mac, you might be able to get it to
>> work,
>> >> but not with all programs.
>> >
>> > XQuartz is genuine X.Org. There's nothing bastardized about it, and
>> all
>> > X11 applications work over the SSH tunnel just like they do on Linux.
>>
>> The language mapping is typically difficult to get right and not all Mac
>> programs will render to X11.
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >> Virtual Machines have changed the way we look at service
>> environments.
>> >
>> > Doesn't change the fact that I've never needed to use QEMU on
>> Macintosh
>> > and when I needed to make it work on Linux it was an abject failure.
>>
>> I find that amazing and I question your truthfulness at this point. I
>> have
>> been using QEMU and KVM for years for web services, software
>> development,
>> and everything. Hell I have a Windows XP VM for turbotax.
>>
>> Lots of people use QEMU/KVM. Its networking sack is just as good as the
>> commercial VMware package. With virt-manager, it really is point and
>> click. Its great.
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >> I have, many times and I see a whole lot of HFS+ does not support
>> sparse
>> >> files, use UFS and a lot of UFS is no longer supported.
>> >>
>> >> I don't believe you.
>> >
>> > Then you're deliberately missing the point. OS X does sparse file
>> systems.
>>
>> Please provide me a link because I know people who need this on a mac.
>>
>> HPF does not support sparse files and UFS has not been available for a
>> couple years now. So, my colleagues are doing work on a Linux VMs on
>> their
>> Macs because we have been unable to get sparse files to work on the Mac.
>> Even Apple support claims you can't do this.
>>
>> Please supply a link, it would be helpful.
>>
>>
>>
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