Making Progress with x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X

[Tom Buskey]

On 3/20/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:

> With the tun/tap stuff you can have the guest OS create a bridge on
> one of it's physical NICs and have your guest OS use normal IP address
> to appear to other systems on your LAN as just another system.  I have
> this up and running under Linux, Mac OS seems more difficult :(
>
> With the user-land QEMU networking, you can use the -redir option to
> redirect specific udp and/or tcp ports, which means I can, if I want,
> still redirect X or use ssh from the host to the guest.  But I can't
> do things like NFS mount file systems from other systems to the guest,
> etc.


I was mainly interested in QEMU to run TiVo 2 Go to put videos on my storage
area.   I figured out how to get Galleon to do it instead; it's native Java
too.   There are still things QEMU is useful for 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.
>
> I'm not using the kemu accelerator either, and as you said, VMWare
> isn't an option :(


I don't think there's a non x86 kemu either.

> 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.
>
> That's a possibility, though I'm using this as a means of learning
> while stuck on the train 2 hours a day, what fun is there in using an
> appliance? (Hmmm, do they have a beer-dispensing appliance?  ;)


Ah, there are tons of prebuilt appliances.  Browser appliance.  Network
Monitoring appliance.  iSCSI applience.  LAMPs of various configs.  Etc.


> VMware has a (free beer) ... application
>
> Now THAT would be useful!  I've been looking for a free beer
> application for quite a while! ;)


I was more interested when I was younger :-)
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