Re: [Gumstix-users] Linux VM for development

[Jason C. <j_...@sw...>]

Just remember one thing.
VMWare images are not transportable across diferent processor classes
ie images from X86 VMs wont run on OS-X as the X86 is emulated on Mac
(if I remember how a Mac works)

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 16:23 -0700, Matthew S. Hamrick wrote:
> 
> 
> But I think the reason that the idea of using a VMWare server image is
> attractive has to do with the fact that you don't have to modify your
> current system. It's somewhat annoying, but some development
> environments require specific versions of packages to be installed.
> Sometimes these required versions don't jibe well with other apps
> you're running. (or more likely, with other bits of software you're
> developing.)