I have a new 11" mac air with lots of disk and ram. I'm trying to figure out the best way to configure it for llvm development on ubuntu. Bootcamp or Virtual Box (or other Virtualization). Bootcamp seems like it would be a nuisance. This is just not my main development machine but it's very portable. :)
On 2013-07-23 23:19, reed kotler wrote:> I have a new 11" mac air with lots of disk and ram. > > I'm trying to figure out the best way to configure it for llvm > development on ubuntu. > > Bootcamp or Virtual Box (or other Virtualization). > Bootcamp seems like it would be a nuisance. > > This is just not my main development machine but it's very portable. :)Do your LLVM development on Mac OS X :) It depends on what your needs are. Using VirtualBox will probably be the easiest. It also allows you to run both Mac OS X and Ubuntu simultaneously. The downside is that it will be slower than running Ubuntu natively. I say, try running in VirtualBox first. -- /Jacob Carlborg
On Jul 24, 2013 2:52 AM, "Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote:> > Do your LLVM development on Mac OS X :)Should work well. Apple is one of the bigger supporters of LLVM, so I'd hope OS X would be a suitable dev platform.> It depends on what your needs are. Using VirtualBox will probably be theeasiest. It also allows you to run both Mac OS X and Ubuntu simultaneously. The downside is that it will be slower than running Ubuntu natively.> > I say, try running in VirtualBox first.Not much slower. VBox does an amazing job at getting near native performance on modern machines (those with nested paging etc.). This is definitely the best option if your computer has ~2g ram and 2+ cores. Give the Ubuntu VM 2g and 1 (maybe 2) core/s and it should be fine. Also, look into seamless mode. It lets you use windows opened in the VM in the host OS. That sounds vague. Just Google it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20130724/bce09994/attachment.html>
I've used both Ubuntu natively and Arch on a VirtualBox VM on a 2011 MBA. Unless you need native-speed GPU acceleration, I would recommend the VirtualBox route. You have to jump through a few hoops to get Ubuntu installed natively (install rEFIt, partition the drive), and I've read Ubuntu still has some issues with the 2013 MBAs [1]. Arch (and Ubuntu) in a VirtualBox VM has worked mostly flawlessly for me and are very easy to set up. Battery life takes a hit, but its not outrageous. The biggest problem I've had is managing disk space on the puny 128GB SSD. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=apple_mba2013_ubuntu&num=1 On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 5:19 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:> I have a new 11" mac air with lots of disk and ram. > > I'm trying to figure out the best way to configure it for llvm development > on ubuntu. > > Bootcamp or Virtual Box (or other Virtualization). > Bootcamp seems like it would be a nuisance. > > This is just not my main development machine but it's very portable. :) > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > LLVM Developers mailing list > LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu > http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/**mailman/listinfo/llvmdev<http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev> >-- Thanks, Justin Holewinski -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20130724/97468e95/attachment.html>