Making Progress [ was x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X? ]

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Tue Mar 20 10:36:37 EDT 2007


On 3/20/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> writes:
>
> >> Did the docs mention whether it was only on a PPC system that it
> >> crashed?
> >
> > They didn't mention which version.  I seem to be running v.9.0, not
> > sure of the sub-version (i.e. dXX).  I'll play around with it some
> > more and see what I can get.  Maybe it's just having problems booting
> > from a floppy image vs. a cdrom ISO image.
>
> So, I seem to have gotten past the boot/install process and now
> successfully have 2 OpenBSD VMs running under QEMU on my Mac


Are you running PPC or x86 OpenBSD?


> PowerBook.  My next hurdle is getting the tun/tap stuff running, which
> seems to be giving quite a few people a lot of trouble.  Apparently
> Apple horked the networking code in Tiger such that the tun/tap driver
> which (reportedly) used to work find under Panther no longer does so.
>
> I may be able to do what I want without the tun/tap networking, but it
> sure would be more fun with it :)


I've been trying to play with it under Solaris 10 x86 and haven't done the
tun/tap stuff yet.  I was able to get XP to run updates though.

VMware seems to be faster, but I'm not running the kemu module.  VMware
isn't an option for you on PPC nor me on Solaris.  kemu is available for
Solaris x86, but not PPC.  I'm not sure about MacOSX x86.


> So, I can now try out all sorts of distros on my Mac :)
>
> If y'all haven't played with QEMU, it's a slick little VM.  It's free,
> runs *really* well under Linux, and is useful for all sorts of things.


QEMU has a nice tool that will convert VMware images to/from QEMU so you can
should be able to grab the prebuilt VMware appliances to use with QEMU.

VMware has a (free beer) p2v application that will convert a Windows setup
to a VM.  Turn your dual boot system into a linux system with a VM for
windows running under QEMU or VMplayer.
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