Guest bugmenot Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 HI Im new to Osx86, and I was wondering what if my processor is only SSE and not SSE2, will the OSx86 process using VMware 5 still work? thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhLilDoggi Posted August 12, 2005 Share Posted August 12, 2005 Even though hes deleted, I'm going to see if it does run on SSE. (Yes, call me crazy) theres a 99% chance its not going to work but....who cares? We have PearPC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilroach Posted August 13, 2005 Share Posted August 13, 2005 Even though hes deleted, I'm going to see if it does run on SSE. (Yes, call me crazy) theres a 99% chance its not going to work but....who cares? We have PearPC! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Im also interested in finding out since my brother has a AMD Athlon 2500XP+, which is SSE only as well. If theres a 99% chance that it wont work, what do you think the reason is. Could it be patched in anyway to remove limitations? Or whats another method, besides vmware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evolver Posted August 13, 2005 Share Posted August 13, 2005 no it doesn't work just tried it as well on my athon 3000xp and i get: panic (cpu caller 0xc0180e8e):unexpected kernel trap, registers: eax ... <long list of registers> debugger called: (panic) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhLilDoggi Posted August 13, 2005 Share Posted August 13, 2005 I'm using a Celeron (look at my sig) ...so I may get different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teirh Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 I tried booting it up on a Celeron 900 (SSE only), and the kernel panics almost immediately, even in VMWare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donniedarko Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 same things here on a amd xp 2200 + this is sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JE Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 ...Which is why I'm stealing my sisters processor.. It supports SSE2.. Pity not SSE3 She won't notice any change anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweak Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 I have an amd 3000+ processor with a socket A soyo kt600 rev 2 motherboard. booting os x went immediatley into a kernel panic just like evolver's error. Even in vmware just like with teirh. So turning of things in bios, or removing cards is probobly your answer if this happens. In my case I had to turn of USB, and then it worked! Another way around this for me was to use "platform=X86PC" and pressing enter when given the choice of boot options. it boots until it gets to the window server which just never loads. i could boot using -s under boot options to single user mode with no problems, but the GUI does not load nativley or using VMware for me. To answer your question bugmenot Vmware will not emulate SSE 2. It's not an emulator at all. It will load the os but it can not start the window server. The only way I could get the os to load all the way was using qemu. A cpu emulator which actually does emulate SSE 2. But it wasn't usable. It took at least 5 minutes just to open an application. For my video card I have an NVIDIA 6800 Ultra, and my onboard sound, nic, etc are not supported by this release os x. I found this out using qemu and checking apple system profiler. So no quarts extreme, no interenet, no sound or anything else even if it did work. For the most part no it doesn't really work. But if you can make it work you will be my hero Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhLilDoggi Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 ahh, QEMU...no wonder..lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joostpossemiers Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 And Bochs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oxtobyd Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 i can get my AMD XP2600 to get as far as the Darwin core bu using -s and disabling the USB in the bios, but the GUI will not go, since that requires at least SSE2 to launch, hey ho, time to upgrade to AMD 64 me thinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweak Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 ahh, QEMU...no wonder..lol <{POST_SNAPBACK}> yeah QEMU was a waste of time. it's either time for me to upgrade, or wait another year when the real thing comes out and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweak Posted August 16, 2005 Share Posted August 16, 2005 http://www.opendarwin.org/~bbraun/darwin8/ i'm not sure if this works yet. but if I read it right, it is the darwin 8x source code modified to run without SSE2. I'm not sure how useful this would be to making the gui work. But I wonder if it might make the little things like kextd work. It may just be something. anyways, the author talks some about it in a mail archive here. http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/hacker...May/005077.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilroach Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 A year is a long time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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