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#21 Let it run free! (x86 and x86_64)

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2010-07-13
2010-07-13
Anonymous
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Please, let it run on other platforms! This would be awesome! The mac eulator for the x86 world! ;)

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  • Renich Bon Ciric

    sorry, this is my user now (I re-attached my openID)

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2010-07-14

    Writing a VM environment for x86/x86_64 is substantially more complicated than for PPC, since PPC (like many other arches) has its lowlevel ops implemented in a trappable fashion from the beginning. If you really want to virtualize OS X on an x86 Mac, you should take a look at VirtualBox, I think there's some support for it now.

     
  • Renich Bon Ciric

    thank you for the response.

    I'm, actually, trying to do this using qemu; which is VirtualBox's underlying engine (AFAIK)... and with little luck...

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2010-07-22

    It probably won't work (or at least not easily) with qemu, since qemu doesn't have an EFI ROM; you'd have to Hackintosh inside qemu, which I imagine would be a dreadful process. Newer versions of VirtualBox have an EFI ROM, and thus have at least some (real) support for virtualizing it natively, without all that screwing about.

     

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