Re: Making Progress with x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X

2007-03-20 Thread Tom Buskey
On 3/20/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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, M

Re: Making Progress with x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X

2007-03-20 Thread Paul Lussier
"Tom Buskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you running PPC or x86 OpenBSD? x86. > 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. QEMU's user-based networking will "just work" with respect to using

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

2007-03-20 Thread Tom Buskey
On 3/20/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 a

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

2007-03-20 Thread Paul Lussier
Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Mayb

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-11 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/11/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just gave it a try (albeit on a MacBook Pro) with an OpenBSD Live CD and it booted up just fine for me. I'm using a pre-release v0.9.0d64 via Q. Did the docs mention whether it was only on a PPC system that it crashed? They didn't mention

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-11 Thread Paul Lussier
Chris Linstid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just gave it a try (albeit on a MacBook Pro) with an OpenBSD Live > CD and it booted up just fine for me. I'm using a pre-release > v0.9.0d64 via Q. > > Did the docs mention whether it was only on a PPC system that it > crashed? They didn't mention w

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-10 Thread Chris Linstid
I just gave it a try (albeit on a MacBook Pro) with an OpenBSD Live CD and it booted up just fine for me. I'm using a pre-release v0.9.0d64 via Q. Did the docs mention whether it was only on a PPC system that it crashed? - Chris On Mar 10, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Paul Lussier wrote:

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-10 Thread Paul Lussier
Chris Linstid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, QEMU might be a better choice. Check out "Q" which is a > GUI front-end for it for OS X: Yeah, I've got QEMU from Darwin Ports installed, but there's a claim in the docs that the BSDs all crash at boot, which is exactly what happens to me. I

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-10 Thread Chris Linstid
Actually, QEMU might be a better choice. Check out "Q" which is a GUI front-end for it for OS X: http://www.kju-app.org/kju/ - Chris On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/9/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... VMWare seems to only support the newer Intel M

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-10 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/9/07, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... VMWare seems to only support the newer Intel Macs ... FYI: VMware only virtualizes an x86 machine into multiple x86 machines. It doesn't provide processor emulation -- that is, it cannot create a virtual x86 on a PowerPC machine. Bochs

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-10 Thread Paul Lussier
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you tried VirtualPC? I know that will run WinXP; I don't > know if it will run Linux, OpenBSD, or other OSes. No, I haven't tried that. I might even have a copy of it laying around somewhere, too. Though it's probably a few years old at this poin

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-10 Thread Chris Linstid
VirtualPC is definitely your best bet then. I've never tried running a BSD on it, but I did run Linux on it (also on a Powerbook G4). It's not exactly fast, but it's usable. The key is to give it as much memory as you can. What are the specs on your Powerbook? - Chris On Mar 10

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-10 Thread Paul Lussier
Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know a virtual environment for the PPC-based Macs? Thanks to all who responded. I am specifically looking for a virtual environment. Partitioning/Dual booting is not in the cards (I don't have enough space for that, and what I need to can b

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-10 Thread Kent Johnson
Paul Lussier wrote: Does anyone know a virtual environment for the PPC-based Macs? I have a PowerBook G4 that I'd like to be able to play with some stuff on. Specifically, I'd like to play around with a couple of the BSDs and possibly some different Linux distros. There is an Ubuntu distro tha

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-10 Thread Jason Stephenson
Paul Lussier wrote: Does anyone know a virtual environment for the PPC-based Macs? I have a PowerBook G4 that I'd like to be able to play with some stuff on. Specifically, I'd like to play around with a couple of the BSDs and possibly some different Linux distros. Have you tried just installin

Re: x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-10 Thread Derek Atkins
Have you tried VirtualPC? I know that will run WinXP; I don't know if it will run Linux, OpenBSD, or other OSes. -derek Quoting Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Does anyone know a virtual environment for the PPC-based Macs? I have a PowerBook G4 that I'd like to be able to play with some s

x86 emulator for PPC Mac OS X?

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Lussier
Does anyone know a virtual environment for the PPC-based Macs? I have a PowerBook G4 that I'd like to be able to play with some stuff on. Specifically, I'd like to play around with a couple of the BSDs and possibly some different Linux distros. I found QEMU in Darwin ports, but it doesn't suppor