Okay, going to give this a try as my first participation in a coin launch.
I will be using the fox.hackshard.com pool, and trying to mine using a combination of cgminer, minerd and cudaminer on Mac and Linux. I will have to probably use my windows VM to setup a wallet until other options are available.
I hope everything goes well, and I'm interested to see how the whole thing plays out.
Just a question (since I have a mac) have you tried using a mining program inside the VM? since openCL on osx is kinda of paltry?
I don't know, I find openCL works fine for AMD/ATI cards, and competitively with PC benchmarks I've seen, but it's horrible for Nvidia cards. That's why I'm using cudaminer on my iMac with an Nvidia card. It's almost three times faster than with OpenCL, but probably still way too slow.
I wouldn't bother mining in a VM, maybe it might work a bit, but would probably make my system less responsive, and it also adds network latency. As a comparison, I am now mining LTC and Quark on my i7 iMac, using all 8 virtual cores, and maxing out my GPU with cudaminer, and it's still perfectly functional, and I barely notice. I may not be making much, but it costs me nothing to do so.