Thanks Rob. Sorry for the late reply, I have just ordered it so will try out
this method and report back to the list on success/failure when it arrives
(in 4 to 10 days :-( ).

Thanks,
Matthew.


On 4/23/08, Rob Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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 Œnative¹ 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
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