Are computers always this hard?

[Tim Kientzle]

On Nov 24, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Matthew Fleming <mdf at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I'm just trying to get FreeBSD in a VM running again on my Mac.  I had had
> VMware installed, but it stopped working when I updated my OS and I didn't
> want to re-pay, so I got VirtualBox today.

I’ve had decent luck with both Parallels and VMWare Fusion on Mac.

> I tried to use NFS mounting but I got too annoyed trying to get my Mac set
> up as an NFS server.

It is mildly annoying, especially the part where the NFS lock server
on Mac OS keeps stopping.  So every time I use svn (or git, for that
matter), I have to wait 10 seconds or so for the lock server to come
back.  (It always does; it’s just an annoying delay.)

In any case, I wrote up how I got this working; you might find some
useful hints in here:

https://github.com/kientzle/crochet-freebsd/wiki/Tracking-FreeBSD-CURRENT-with-VMWare-Fusion-and-Crochet

Tim