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Ask HN: Mac OS X users and virtual appliances
2 points by sdesol on March 2, 2014 | hide | past | favorite
This is a question for Mac OS X users with regards to virtual appliances. The product that I'm working on right now is designed for Linux but I can get it to install natively on OS X with some effort, but I'm not sure if this is the best use of my limited resources. So my question is, what is the current mindset for Mac OS X users when it comes to virtual appliances?

Are you turned off by the idea of having to use virtual box, vmware, etc. Is it native install or no install?

My product runs quite well in a Virtual environment on Windows but I don't have a Mac to test things yet, so I don't quite know how well virtualization is supported on Mac.

Not sure if this makes a difference, but my product is designed to be accessed by your browser. I just want to provide a virtual appliance since it has a lot of moving parts on the server side.

Thanks

Edit: My apologizes if my ask post showed up a couple of times. I was getting a bad gateway error whenever I posted so I didn't know it actually went through the other times.



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