From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 21:19:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32ED1065676 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:19:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from damjan.marion@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EC238FC12 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:19:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyb33 with SMTP id 33so3826469wyb.13 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:19:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:subject:mime-version:content-type:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references :to:x-mailer; bh=xBEcz5BYCjHyuLcYfJVgKROqABb6MdO7DXTn8QY+HO0=; b=ZsT+VoOIsFH714CWXf6FWWRn57uw0p+kyhAuwTFjp+pvB1D/Df1mKz1XGDJj6aP51R TKF0FOBnOk406m1gTQBhGFNFH9R9MoTeBbJnMoejoNStJxZXIriBRHpOZ975zgzxjD3e YUbbqpqQTSJExkYT/sxWtm5V4cQipsboiky+0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=UiDDvlYZS5ILconNwwY3UcfIyxO+NaW25CmYxTKmvolgP3xAPHlxzTrPz45Nl17ven YaCYA1KVcp+1x8JgE2o4stZ2IstvgBoLhNX+OC8iUMZ/5WbEI9WZ4vE3Ulr8KWftNx2g NVpWZ0uNJucTrgK3GChl13Oir9v33szp/gcaI= Received: by 10.216.139.209 with SMTP id c59mr5238679wej.88.1308603297464; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:54:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.123.4] (cpe-109-60-79-155.zg3.cable.xnet.hr [109.60.79.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 74sm3121215wem.17.2011.06.20.13.54.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:54:56 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Damjan Marion In-Reply-To: <20110620205301.GA11753@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:54:54 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: References: <20110620205301.GA11753@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> To: Luigi Rizzo X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best way to do FreeBSD kernel/userland development on OSX ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:19:20 -0000 On Jun 20, 2011, at 10:53 PM, Luigi Rizzo 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. According to some email threads this is not a smart option as it might screw up some applications which assume that FS is case-insensitive. I shrink my 1st partition and created 2nd one which is case sensitive. i'm using it for cross-compiling FreeBSD/ARM kernel. Damjan