Oh and I just ran a few of my iOS apps in this rather tight config on 10.11.3 and Xcode 7.3.1 and it's really pretty fast. I certainly was surprised.
We're talking 1 project that includes 2 projects that links to a framework that links to pjSIP and builds that as a static lib. It's freaking fast and besides a little bit of "not really snappy UI", this is awesome. When compared to building from a clean build on a 15" Retina MBP, it's only 5 seconds slower and I've only given the VM 4 cores and 5 GB of RAM and it's not running off the SSD yet. I'm even able to send a voice call to the simulator running on the virtualized OS and it's real time. This is really really nice. I guess what I'm saying is, "keep all your old versions of OS and Xcode in VMs so you can use them when you want." This is surprisingly nice if you need to switch back to older OSes and Xcode combinations every once and a while. On May 7, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote: > Just to follow up, on what I said I'd do. I've finally updated one of my VMs > to 10.11.3 and Xcode 7.3.1. > > > I'm running this in VMWare 5.0.5 of all things off of the 17" thunderbolt > laptop with 16 GB of RAM, a 1TB internal drive, a 480 GB SSD and an 8 TB > external Thunderbolt drive. > > The VMs are on the external 8 TB Thunderbolt. > > The current VMs I have available are as follows: > > Mac OS X 10.8.5 64-bit > Mac OS X 10.8.5 64-bit small image > Mac OS X 10.9.x 64-bit small image > Mac OS X 10.11.x 64-bit small image > > Each of these is about 55 GB. > > Each one accesses a shared volume that I can put my dev material on and this > is generally an SSD or a RAM drive shared from another computer. 4GB/s is > nice throughput to have. > > The small images are images that VMWare allows to expand as needed. > By having each of these, all i need to do to upgrade is to take the latest > one, duplicate it, update the OS with a full installer and if the process > borks, all I have lost is that duplicated VM. All of my previous images are > undamaged. > > In fact, the update to 10.11 cratered twice, until I copied everything to > where it needs to be, then it worked like a charm. I put the Xcode installer > on another drive, mounted it and all went well. > > Screenshot of the mess: > http://i.imgur.com/nALvcjY.png > > > > > On May 6, 2016, at 12:33 AM, Charles Srstka wrote: > >>> On May 5, 2016, at 9:39 PM, Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On May 5, 2016, at 6:07 PM, Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Can you run this application? >>>> >>>> “OpenGL Extensions Viewer" >>>> >>>> http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/ >>>> >>>> I could never get an app that uses OpenGL to work with a virtual machine. >>> >>> >>> >>>> On May 5, 2016, at 8:16 PM, Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Seems to run all right in VMWare Fusion on my machine. >>> >>> >>> Amazing. >>> >>> Click the “Tests” tab and click the “Test” button in the lower left corner. >>> >>> Does it work? >>> >>> --Richard Charles >> >> I got an image of a rotating cube. >> >> Charles >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zav%40mac.com >> >> This email sent to z...@mac.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to z...@mac.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
