[Xastir] Vmware Players latest version

[Tom Hayward]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 16:13, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Lee Bengston wrote:
>
>> I haven't created any new VirtualBox VM's for distribution with
>> Xastir, however, since last September.  Would there be any interest in
>> a new VirtualBox VM with all of Xastir's current goodies?  I have no
>> desire to go back to VMware.
>
> The only concern I'd have is:  What OS'es are supported by
> VirtualBox?  Do they support OSX?  I know there's already an OSX
> Xastir binary with the latest goodies, but perhaps some would prefer
> running a virtual machine?  Don't really know.

FWIW, I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on OSX with the latest
VMware Fusion. The "easy install" option will automatically click all
the install process buttons (granted Ubuntu only has a few) and
install the vmware tools. Completely painless. It took about 10
minutes to go from .iso to installed Ubuntu with working vmware tools.
They've really improved lately in this regard.

Last week for work I built a development environment for internal
distribution. Rather than using a virtual machine, I built a
customized Ubuntu distribution (live-cd with install option). This
turned out to be really easy (albeit probably more difficult than
building a .deb, and much less bandwidth-efficient). I just followed
this instructions on the Ubuntu wiki. This would be a pretty easy way
to distribute Xastir packaged with an OS. Because it's based on
Ubuntu, VMware still recognizes it and is able to use the "easy
install" option, if that's how you choose to use it. The .iso could
also be used for a xastir live-cd or normal Ubuntu installation on
dedicated hardware.

Tom KD7LXL