Comments on: Joyent DTrace Probes for Ruby in Apple's Leopard

By: Mark Mayo

Mark Mayo — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:50:24 +0000

That’s exactly what I do Tim. I.e. VMware Fusion on my MacBook Pro. The snapshot feature is handy for rolling back, but my favorite part is that I can create a new VM for new releases of Nevada without having to worry about blowing up my existing, working OpenSolaris VM. Handy.

There’s a performance hit compared to running “native”, sure, but the flexibility if offers is pretty hard to beat.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:20:03 +0000

Why not use VMware to run solaris on your laptop?

That’s idea for a developer, since they can make changes – then revert to a previous image to start clean again.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:40:57 +0000

sure you can develop with Solaris on a laptop. get an Accelerator and do it remotely! the best of all worlds.

By: Bill Rushmore

Bill Rushmore — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:54:25 +0000

Your missing the point on why Laptop support is important for Solaris: developers. Some of us would like to develop with Solaris and not be chained to a desk.

BTW, I had OpenSolaris working very well on my Sony TR1a. The ONLY feature I did not have was suspend. Otherwise it was great and that was well over a year ago.