<div dir="ltr">Rob Funk wrote: "<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I just recently installed 64-bit OS X on VirtualBox running on 64-bit </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">kUbuntu. I haven't tried it with Win7 though."</span><div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">After your message I went into my initial Ubuntu install and successfully got 64 bit Win7 running (after some BIOS tweaks.) I guess the limitations I had before were due to OS X or the hardware I was using. Now I plan to drop Linux on my mSATA and use the HDD as ext4 storage.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Brian Miller wrote: "</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I do have a Win7 virtual system under Virtual Box on Linux. I'm </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">thinking of getting rid of it, though, since the only time I ever turn </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">it on is to install the latest patches.</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">"</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">I can believe that! I have one program for work that is the primary reason I've booted into my virtual XP system (and the same will likely be true for the Win7 VM. I don't plan to use it often, but good to have around just in case. I don't have any other Win boxes in my house.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Joshua Kramer wrote: "</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In my experience, NTFS usage has been rock-solid, if a little slow. <snip> </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">The only caveat is, it is much better to initially create a NTFS filesystem on Windows.</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">"</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Good to know for future reference!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Now if I can get my system set-up tonight I can turn this evening into something enjoyable. (I grew up in Denver and am a huge Broncos fan. What a terrible game!) I'm leaning toward installing Linux Mint Debian for the rolling release schedule.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">-Dan</span></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Joshua Kramer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joskra42.list@gmail.com" target="_blank">joskra42.list@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="im"><div>> Last I heard, NTFS support on Linux was still kind of hackish. You might be<br>
> better off with a vfat space, plus separate storage spaces optimized for<br>
> each OS. Or just virtualize Windows entirely.<br><br></div></div>In my experience, NTFS usage has been rock-solid, if a little slow. I'm using it via the fuse-ntfs-3g modules that come bundled with CentOS. Among my collection of external drives, most are either XFS or ext4, but I have one ~160G drive that I formatted NTFS so I could share files larger than 4gb between my Windows and Linux systems. It hasn't been any trouble at all.<br>
<br>The only caveat is, it is much better to initially create a NTFS filesystem on Windows. On Linux there is a mkntfs program, but in my experience the filesystems created with that program don't play well under Windows.<br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Rob Funk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfunk@funknet.net" target="_blank">rfunk@funknet.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Saturday, February 01, 2014 08:47:36 AM Dan Kaiser wrote:<br>
> Sounds like a good idea to pick a Debian based distro at first (because<br>
> I'm familiar) and then try many others virtually and branch out as time<br>
> goes on.<br>
<br>
</div>I'd agree with that.<br>
<div><br>
> I have only used VirtualBox (VB) under OS X, but will have to do some<br>
> playing with KVM and others if available. VB had the limitation of only<br>
> running 32-bit systems. If I can find one that will host 64-bit systems I<br>
> can nuke my win7 partition and only use it virtually when needed.<br>
<br>
</div>I just recently installed 64-bit OS X on VirtualBox running on 64-bit<br>
kUbuntu. I haven't tried it with Win7 though.<br>
<div><br>
> My current plan is to dual boot the distro of my choice along with win7<br>
> (it came with the computer so why not) on a smaller mSATA drive, and<br>
> have the standard HDD be shared storage (vFAT or NTFS).<br>
><br>
> Anyone using a similar set-up and have any warnings or tips for setup?<br>
<br>
</div>Last I heard, NTFS support on Linux was still kind of hackish. You might be<br>
better off with a vfat space, plus separate storage spaces optimized for<br>
each OS. Or just virtualize Windows entirely.<br>
<span><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
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