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Hey all,
I'm a linux user looking at switching to mac. I'm thinking of getting a 13" MBP and wanted to float my plans for my setup to see if any of you mac experts have any advice, pointers or feedback for me.
I'll need to run a virtualised ubuntu-server as I'm a primarily a web developer and require quite specific setup & packages to run my projects. I also need to be developing on ubuntu-server as this is also my production server and I need to the setup to be as similar as possible.
The problem I have with virtaulising a server is that I've yet to find a god solution for modifying the code on the virtualised machine. I've played around with Eclipse's RSE plugin which connects via SSH, it works but crashes if the virtual machine turns off / isn't running. I've tried sshfs which again isn't ideal. I've tried samba shares but eclipse doesn't like that.
Whilst looking in to vmware & parallels I read that they can actually run your boot-camp partitioned OS. I think this might solve my problem of coding on a virtaulised machine as if I run ubuntu-server via bootcamp then I can access the filesystem directly from OS X (even when not running). I'd need to install macfuse so I could modify the ext4 filesystem. I could then code directly to servers filesystem without the actually running the OS. When I need to test I could just boot up vmware or parallels and run the bootcamp partition.
My question is would this work? Is there a better way I could do it?
If anyone has experience doing similar I'd love to hear how you find it.
Thanks!
I'm a linux user looking at switching to mac. I'm thinking of getting a 13" MBP and wanted to float my plans for my setup to see if any of you mac experts have any advice, pointers or feedback for me.
I'll need to run a virtualised ubuntu-server as I'm a primarily a web developer and require quite specific setup & packages to run my projects. I also need to be developing on ubuntu-server as this is also my production server and I need to the setup to be as similar as possible.
The problem I have with virtaulising a server is that I've yet to find a god solution for modifying the code on the virtualised machine. I've played around with Eclipse's RSE plugin which connects via SSH, it works but crashes if the virtual machine turns off / isn't running. I've tried sshfs which again isn't ideal. I've tried samba shares but eclipse doesn't like that.
Whilst looking in to vmware & parallels I read that they can actually run your boot-camp partitioned OS. I think this might solve my problem of coding on a virtaulised machine as if I run ubuntu-server via bootcamp then I can access the filesystem directly from OS X (even when not running). I'd need to install macfuse so I could modify the ext4 filesystem. I could then code directly to servers filesystem without the actually running the OS. When I need to test I could just boot up vmware or parallels and run the bootcamp partition.
My question is would this work? Is there a better way I could do it?
If anyone has experience doing similar I'd love to hear how you find it.
Thanks!