[dayglored]

Yeah, given my druthers, I'd run the VM host software (I happen to like VMware) on Linux, and virtualize OS X along with everything else. But I'm not highly motivated to acquire another hobby (i.e. supporting a Hackintosh VM). Easier to deal with the overly-friendly and somewhat restrictive OS X GUI.

At work my workstation is CentOS, and I use Xen as my VM host software, which is great because I can do all the VM client management from the command line, and thus manage things remotely (e.g. over VPN) with just a terminal.

[Still Thinking]

Yeah, given my druthers, I'd run the VM host software (I happen to like VMware) on Linux, and virtualize OS X along with everything else.

I'm in the Recovering-Win-Migrating-to-Linux phase of grief, but philosophically, that would be my choice as well if it were available. Fortunately, I don't have to do anything in OSX, so it's moot for me. Windows and Linux play reasonably nice together.