Matthew, here is a possible solution for you... Further to Zsban¹s email ...
I use a MacBookPro with J (using J32 for Darwin). I agree with Zsban that there appears to be no native¹ 64 bit support and no J64 for Darwin available (ie to run J64 under Mac OSX) so don¹t think this is possible to do directly .. Although ... Mac OSX Leopard (10.5+) does provide a 64 bit OS, although as stated only via the Xeon processors in the Mac Pro and X Serve (32 bit comes from a 32 bit emulation layer), so on the MacBookPro I think OSX is a ³32 bit host OS² ... http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/64bit.html I already use VMWare Fusion to run Virtual Machines on the MacBookPro (eg for Windows XP and Linux), but Oleg¹s recent message (attached below) indicates you could use VMWare to create a 64 bit virtual machine within the 32 bit host OS (I had never thought of / needed to do this before) ... http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/features.html#c25453 The processor specs for the Intel Core 2 Duo indicate that it supports ³Intel 64 architecture² and also Hardware Virtualisation (again wrt Oleg¹s email). I just checked in the supported OS list for VMWare Fusion on Mac OSX (selectable when you create a New VM) and it shows the following as supported OS¹s (in addition to all the 32 bit OS¹s)... Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3/4/5 64-bit Suse Linux 64-bit Madriva Linux 64-bit Ubuntu 64-bit Other Linux 64-bit The only certain way is to check, but this all suggests it could be done, with VMWare/Linux64/J64-Linux to provide the 64 bit J you want on the MacBookPro. Let me know if you want me to look further into this, perhaps offline form the forum. Regards, Rob Hodgkinson On 24/04/08 6:48 AM, "Oleg Kobchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It turns out that it is fairly easy to run > 64-bit guest on 32-bit host OS, with > - Core Duo (or AMD) with VT support > - VMWare virtual machine > > See if your processor supports VT > (hardware virtualization): > http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/chart/core2duo.htm > > And you can enjoy the 64-bit guilty pleasures > from the comfort of your XP or Vista box. > > For examples, you can install Ubuntu 64-bit > Linux into free VMWare Player. > > Here's info how to create disk image and VM template. > > VMWare Player Image Creation > http://www.ffnn.nl/pages/articles/linux/vmware-player-image-creation.php > > On 23/04/08 4:57 AM, "Zsbán Ambrus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Brand >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > Is it possible to run J64 on a Mac Book Pro? Does anybody know if there >>> are any upgrades or features I should make sure it has or of any related >>> problems? Does it work "out-of-the-box" on Macs? >> >> I don't think it's possible. From the download page >> "http://www.jsoftware.com/stable.htm"; it seems that J64 has versions >> for Linux and Windows xp, but not for OS X. Thus, you'll only be able >> to run J32 on a macbook with the native OS. (You may be able to use >> it with another operating system, like Linux or FreeBSD.) >> >> Ambrus >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
