This is my new office Mac. It is an incredible fun to work with it. It is wired to my LAN.
- I followed the procedure I described for setting up the MacBook Air (chromium, Firefox, Fink, my utilities, …)
- a Samsung MFP (SCX-4623) is attached to it, so it needs the “Samsung Scan and Fax Manager” – I searched samsung.com for SCX-4623, then for its downloadables, and that was it
It also serves as a VirtualBox host:
- 1st appliance: Oracle DB; OS: Oracle Linux Server with SELinux
- 2nd (planned) VM: another SUSE Linux
I will be able to run various OS-s, systems, … as VM-s.
Because its network connection is through LAN (i.e. not WiFi), VirtualBox supports “bridged network connections” for the VM guests, and every single VM can have an ordinary LAN IP address, and every host and every VM guest can talk to each other ordinarily.
VirtualBox does not support “bridged network connections”, if the host itself is only connected to its environment through WiFi.
So this is somehow the 1st time I am able to enjoy easy ssh access to a VM guest. I have been suffering quite a while from NAT connections with strange port set-ups on my MacBook Pro, connected mostly via WiFi.