[macscaf]

Hi all,

I'm wanting a lighter platfom to run VMWare images I use for work on the iMac at home using BootCamp.

I found VMWare's Fusion on 10.5 okay but it crawled a bit when running some of my Windows Server apps that I need for work. At the moment they run great on a 2Gb laptop running XP (sorry I swore) but I like having a 20" screen when at home.

So apart from dropping more RAM into the 1Gb iMac, does anyone know of a Linux distribution that is compiled just to run VMWare player and it's images on an external USB drive? So then I can install that onto a BootCamp partition.

Any ideas or suggestions.

Ta

[jeremy_warnock]

I could be wrong, but boot camp doesn't support any other os except windows. There might be a way around it

[decryption]

Any computer with 1GB of RAM is going to struggle. RAM is so cheap now days, may as well throw in 2x 1GB chips for under $40.

[Piratbyran]

Originally Posted by jeremy_warnock

I could be wrong, but boot camp doesn't support any other os except windows. There might be a way around it

Doesn't support, doesn't mean it can't run on it!

A lot of distros run quite nicely, i am sure that mandriva and ubuntu have pretty good support, i think you will find a lot of distros have the mac drivers, they are fairly generic. Although you may have some issues with the airport drivers (solved with an external adapter).

Good luck
-pb

[rehab junkie]

Originally Posted by jeremy_warnock

I could be wrong, but boot camp doesn't support any other os except windows. There might be a way around it

I've seen Solaris 10/U5 being installed using boot camp.

[Beau]

You can try and install other operating systems, you just wont get the Apple drivers for things like the Trackpad, Eject & Keyboard buttons, Bluetooth, AirPort etc, unless you can find them (or equivalents) for Linux.

[jubilantjeremy]

Originally Posted by Beau

You can try and install other operating systems, you just wont get the Apple drivers for things like the Trackpad, Eject & Keyboard buttons, Bluetooth, AirPort etc, unless you can find them (or equivalents) for Linux.

Ubuntu 8.04 worked pretty flawlessly with my macbook when I used a Live CD a few weeks ago..

[Shambler]

Yeah, Ubuntu works really easily on Macbooks these days, although I have to say the MacBook 4.1 is having some issues (unfortunately the 100 I just got at work are all this model!)