iMac (Intel) observations

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ppotera

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So, I installed the beta on my Intel Mac, and installed Ubuntu (Breezy Badger).

Here are some issues I'm experiencing:

- no network (via WiFi), even using en1. This seems to be confirmed by Parallels in another thread, and promised to be fixed in the next Beta. No big deal, if it gets fixed. If it doesn't, I'm not buying.

- the VM crashed at the end of installing Ubuntu (edubuntu to be exact). Installation seems complete, so it might not be a big deal. I have the crash log, if anyone is interested. I reported this through the beta as well. The VM was configured as Linux 2.6, other, harddrive size increased to 15GB, everything else was default.

- the display gets scrambled when running gCompris on Edubuntu with no way of making it work again. This looks like it has to do with X server switching resolutions. The display gets scrambled when cycling through resolutions with Ctrl+Alt+<+|->. Not being able to run gCompris is also a deal breaker for me.

Cheers,
Paul
 
If you read through the forums, several people claimed that they got airport working just by enabling EN01. I am really puzzled by this. How come some people can claim they can do it while the Parallels guys said it can't be done?
 
I am using FreeBSD and my wireless works fine. However, you cannot communicate with the host through wireless. IE I can't ping my mac os x ip through my freebsd instance, unless I'm hooked up through ethernet. Then it works. This is a known bug, and will be fixed :)
 
Wireless networking worked for me (mostly)

I didn't realize that there was a problem. I installed OpenSuSE10 into a vm on my macbook last night. I hooked my Bridged Network to en1 and off I went. SuSE drew down all the updates, etc..

I had one problem. Using Bridged to en1, my vm can't talk to the host. A ping -b reveals every host on the network except the mac. Once I switched my connection to en0 that problem was solved.:)

I've been using VMWare since their first beta (6 or 7 years now) and so far, the lack of host-only-NAT, multiple NICS and the ability to change what real dev a vm network device is connected to are my only complaints. For the $, this seems like a good product. I've been running XP and Linux in QEMU on my mac and this VM is easily 4-5 times faster.
 
I'm working fine using the wireless from the VM, except that it can't renew the IP (when I move to a new network) without a reboot of the virtual machine. Odd issue, but not a terrible one.
 
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