Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:44:33 -0700 From: mdf@FreeBSD.org To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best way to do FreeBSD kernel/userland development on OSX ? Message-ID: <BANLkTinww--s%2BkBhx0ZwkE3ZcHgror-CiQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110620205301.GA11753@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20110620205301.GA11753@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > i recently replaced my laptop with a mac, which opens the problem on > how do i do FreeBSD development (including kernel work) on it. > > the option i am trying now is running a freebsd VM in virtualbox, > but it is slightly slow and probably energy hungry. > > I'd like to keep the svn checkut outside the disk image but > unfortunately the default filesystem on osx is case-insensitive > so i can't do that -- unless someone shows me how to change > the filesystem conventions. > > suggestions anyone ? With the help of google I did something for this a few months ago. You can create a new disk image, and use case-sensitive for this image. I created mine as something like 8GB but thinly provisioned so it didn't take up all the space until used. I use VMWare for testing code changes ($WORK paid for a license for me), but it's a CPU/battery hog, so I'm not wild about it, but it does work. Cheers, matthew
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