> On Nov 11, 2007, at 8:28 PM, John Sonnenschein wrote: > >> It has, and IIRC we concluded it wasn't an accurate enough simulation >> > > Hm, I don't want to reopen this, but you can run Mac OS X on it > (looking at the snapshots), Linux (accroding to their installation > instructions), not mentioning HelenOS (from own experience). So in > this regard I think it is much more accurate than running ia64 linux > on the Ski simulator (which has been mentioned on another opensolaris > list today).
Someone, I think it was Alan Hargreaves, was fond of saying "there is no replacement for *real* memory" and I think that goes double for "real hardware". Dennis ps: VMware will not be happy to hear that, but such is life.