[TriLUG] Linux on my PowerPC Mac mini running in emulation under OS X.5

Steve Kuekes steve at kuekes.homeip.net
Wed Jun 25 11:09:41 EDT 2008


I use Qemu it supports a wide range of hosts and emulated host combinations.

See http://bellard.org/qemu/

Greg Brown wrote:
> That looks pretty cool and I like that you can build it from source yourself
> but it appears that only OS X running on an Intel box is supported.  :(
> 
> I'll keep searching.
> 
> Greg
> 
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:52 AM, <ajray at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I use Sun's virtualBox Open Source edition.  I havent heard it mentioned
>>on this list before so I thought I'd put it in.
>>
>>Quote from their page:
>>"Sun xVM VirtualBox software is the world's most popular open source
>>virtualization platform because of its fast performance, ease of use, rich
>>functionality, and modular design."
>>
>>Find it here:
>>http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
>>
>>~Cheers
>>
>>
>>>Do I have any OSS options for the virtual machine emulator?  I'd like to
>>>run
>>>a mostly bare-bones debian install: no gui, just ssh, nmap and a few
>>
>>other
>>
>>>tools.  I suppose I could go the Fink route but I'm not sure of the
>>>long-term issues of staying on the PowerPC platform.  Suggestions?
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