As mentioned below, as I go off MacOS, I have been investing more (precious) time getting a Centos 7.0 desktop fully functional. Mail is up and running in the shape of Thunderbird, which I preferred over Evolution. Neither seem particularly customisable (particularly fonts) but Thunderbird seems to have the edge.<\/p>\n
My next major requirement is virtualisation. I didn’t have any luck with VMware Player as a first attempt. It loaded some kernel modules and I pointed at my existing vmx files but the VMs didn’t boot and now the player just crashed with a couple of error lines in the USBArb log.<\/p>\n
In any case, I wanted to use KVM on Linux and have reached the milestone of building a Centos 7 guest VM using VMM and qemu-kvm (after overcoming the obligatory hurdles, luckily relatively minor). I don’t have much faith in VMware and KVM working together although there’s no reason why they shouldn’t (VMware player is a type 2 hypervisor, or is it?) Things are complicated enough as it is without trying to run two hypervisors on the same machine!<\/p>\n
Next experiment is to get my Windows desktops currently running under VMware workstation on Ubuntu into QEMU\/KVM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As mentioned below, as I go off MacOS, I have been investing more (precious) time getting a Centos 7.0 desktop fully functional. Mail is up and running in the shape of Thunderbird, which I preferred over Evolution. Neither seem particularly … Continue reading