About a month ago my desktop machine gave up the ghost and I broke down and bought a Mac for myself, the 20″ Intel-based iMac. Holy crap! This is a sweet machine. I’m a Linux fan-boy from way back, but there’s just no arguing with something that is this clean and tightly integrated but still gives me the command line access I crave.
Almost every application I use already exists on the Mac, or is easily compiled from the same sources I used under Linux. Except one..
VMware. My job is working with VMware products (mainly ESX), and there are NO VMware products for the Mac. Admittedly, I can work around the lack of VMware console by install vmware-console onto my ESX hosts and using ssh+X11 forwarding to get the display exported to my Mac, but the Linux version of esx-console sucks, I’d much prefer a native version of vmware-console that worked more like either the Windows version or the Linux version of gsx-console. Even better would be an OSX native version of VMware Server. I guess Workstation would be okay too, but I really prefer GSX/Server to WS so that I can run multiple VMs in the background and set up things like auto-boot of VMs when my machine starts up. Plus, I can use the GSX/Server Console to access ESX servers, I just can’t change their settings, but I always do that from the MUI or command line anyway. According to this page, it may be on the way, but who knows if/when it will be released.
This morning I ordered one of the new 17″ MacbookPro’s to replace my Alienware laptop luggable (which will be hitting eBay as soon as the Mac comes in).
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