x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Mar 10 07:24:26 EST 2007


Have you tried VirtualPC?  I know that will run WinXP; I don't
know if it will run Linux, OpenBSD, or other OSes.

-derek

Quoting Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net>:

>
> Does anyone know a virtual environment for the PPC-based Macs?  I have
> a PowerBook G4 that I'd like to be able to play with some stuff on.
> Specifically, I'd like to play around with a couple of the BSDs and
> possibly some different Linux distros.
>
> I found QEMU in Darwin ports, but it doesn't support OpenBSD, which is
> the BSD I want to be mucking with right now.  VMWare seems to only
> support the newer Intel Macs, and PearPC seems to not support any of
> the BSDs.
>
> Am I SOL here?
>
> Thanks.
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> Paul
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