x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?
Ben Scott
dragonhawk at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 22:27:10 EDT 2007
On 3/11/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I just gave it a try (albeit on a MacBook Pro) with an OpenBSD Live
>> CD and it booted up just fine for me. I'm using a pre-release
>> v0.9.0d64 via Q.
>>
>> Did the docs mention whether it was only on a PPC system that it
>> crashed?
>
> They didn't mention which version.
Remember, on an x86-based Mac, QEMU is only going to be doing
machine virtualization, not hardware emulation. On a PPC-based Mac,
QEMU is going to have to emulate the entire machine. So you're
talking radically different environments.
-- Ben
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