Virtual PC

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Bochs is about as close as it gets.
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there's really no freeware equivalent. i hear a lot about qemu, which
requires linux (or unix?) host. bochs is an emulator and is fairly
slow, while VPC and VMware are virtualizers.

michael
 
Mark Warner writh:
Fred Langa has been recently touting Microsoft's Virtual PC software:

http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2004/2004-04-08.htm#1

Any freeware equivalent? (Bochs doesn't look like it will do the trick
for me.)
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Try QEMU.

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xmp writh:
there's really no freeware equivalent. i hear a lot about qemu, which
requires linux (or unix?) host. bochs is an emulator and is fairly
slow, while VPC and VMware are virtualizers.
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I've ran QEMU on Windows, there's a precompiled binary... IIRC at
http://www.freeoszoo.org .

QEMU looks like a good option as it says it can emulate PowerPC CPU too.
(maybe someday it'll boot Mac OS X?)

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On that special day, Chaos Master, ([email protected]) said...
QEMU looks like a good option as it says it can emulate PowerPC CPU too.
(maybe someday it'll boot Mac OS X?)
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Only on a Pentium six with 20 GHz, which will require a liquid nitrogen
cooler, and the emulation will be a PPC at 2 GHz


Gabriele Neukam

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Gabriele said:
On that special day, Chaos Master, ([email protected]) said...




Only on a Pentium six with 20 GHz, which will require a liquid nitrogen
cooler, and the emulation will be a PPC at 2 GHz


Gabriele Neukam

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Well, I've successfully runned Mac OS X on my Laptop
- Pentium IV @ 2,8 GHz
- 512 MB Ram
- Windows XP Pro
Using PearPC (http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/)

Sure, it was slowbut it worked (I guess you'd realy need 1 GB of RAM and
no background processes running t run it acceptably, but it *is* a start)


MightyKitten
 
mightyKitten said:
Well, I've successfully runned Mac OS X on my Laptop
- Pentium IV @ 2,8 GHz
- 512 MB Ram
- Windows XP Pro
Using PearPC (http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/)

Sure, it was slowbut it worked (I guess you'd realy need 1 GB of RAM and
no background processes running t run it acceptably, but it *is* a start)


MightyKitten
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which version of Mac OS X?
 
Lius wrote:
which version of Mac OS X?
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Version 10.3.4
Though I have to admit, I only have PearPC and The Mac OS X to increase
my Nerd factor, I don't actually work with it (I can't get my Network to
run, or I would use it to checkout my webpages in safari)

MightyKitten
 
mightyKitten writh:

Well, I've successfully runned Mac OS X on my Laptop
- Pentium IV @ 2,8 GHz
- 512 MB Ram
- Windows XP Pro
Using PearPC (http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/)

Sure, it was slowbut it worked (I guess you'd realy need 1 GB of RAM and
no background processes running t run it acceptably, but it *is* a start)
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But PearPC has focus on emulating only PowerPC... (i.e. a "Virtual Mac"
[1])
Maybe I could try booting Mac OS 9 or PowerPC Linux on it?

[]s

[1] Not quite, as, AFAIK, IBM uses PPC on some servers that run UNIX.

[]s
 
CHarneyCHRIS said:
from what i have read it takes a L_O_N_G time tom boot.
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Yeah, It takes some time...
I've never seen OS X running on real hardware, but I guess It will be a
lot faster (I takes me 4 minutes)

On the other hand, I knw Zillions of people who have installed, tweaked
and upgraded their computer in such way that it wil take them well over
5 minutes just to boot Windows 9x, w2k or xp (Longlive Norton Internet
Security suite :-) )


MightyKitten
 
CHarneyCHRIS said:
pearpc dsoesnt run os9.0 yet.
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And it never will. OS 9 was for the 680x0 processor family. PearPC
emulates the PowerPC family.

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