x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

[Chris Linstid]

Actually, QEMU might be a better choice.  Check out "Q" which is a  
GUI front-end for it for OS X:

http://www.kju-app.org/kju/

	- Chris

On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Ben Scott wrote:

> On 3/9/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>> ... VMWare seems to only support the newer Intel Macs ...
>
>  FYI: VMware only virtualizes an x86 machine into multiple x86
> machines.  It doesn't provide processor emulation -- that is, it
> cannot create a virtual x86 on a PowerPC machine.
>
>  Bochs is a platform-independent FOSS x86 emulator.  I've never used
> it.  I've heard it works okay, but is very slow.  The Bochs logo
> includes the BSD daemon, so that's promising for your cause.
> http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
>
>  If you do have VirtualPC, I'd recommend trying that first, as I
> understand VirtualPC is optimized for PowerPC, which should yield
> better performance than Bochs.
>
> -- Ben
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