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I know this is a bit premature at the moment (cosidering everyone's still mastering getting OSX x86 to run nicely), but has anyone looked further into running Windows within the OSX environment? It reckon it'll fly due to the x86 hardware!

 

On an off-note, I hooked up a 915 chipset intel mainboard, and everyone is flying... Truly can't believe how well it's running. Quartz Extreme, Core Graphics, SS3, Rosetta... all without a flaw (minus the DVD player, which crashes)

 

 

All the best everyone, look at the progress that has been made in such a short time!

 

 

OSX has got me enjoying PC's again! :(

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i read somewhere apple was implementing an emulation layer to have windows apps run. i personally think its a bad idea, sicne people will continue to develop for windows knowing that OS X users can do it too.

 

all in all, it means less native OS X software

 

less OS X software != success for apple.

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I'm sure wine will eventually work under OS X... but I'd give it some time :lol:

 

If you look at the wiki page, you will find the Darwine project

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Darwine

 

It still has flaws (listed in the link) such as no sound, and windows XP - only applications failing... worth a try though... Now all we have to do is run OS X inside a VM Ware session running under Darwine on OS X B)

Yes...there's a little App caled Darwin on the wiki (See above).

Also, if you're really adventourous, you could run Virtual PC under Rosetta. That would most likely be pretty slow though, since your emulating an emulated x86 system.

 

Kinda blow's your mind, doesn't it?

Didn't someone get QEMU working? QEMU or Bochs for OSX would probably be the best options, considering MS is probably going to do a total rewrite of VPC (no need to fully emulate a P6 CPU when you're running on one). You'll still get the same speeds as PPC Windows emulation, though, since QEMU and Bochs emulate entire systems.

I know this is a bit premature at the moment (cosidering everyone's still mastering getting OSX x86 to run nicely), but has anyone looked further into running Windows within the OSX environment? It reckon it'll fly due to the x86 hardware!

 

On an off-note, I hooked up a 915 chipset intel mainboard, and everyone is flying... Truly can't believe how well it's running. Quartz Extreme, Core Graphics, SS3, Rosetta... all without a flaw (minus the DVD player, which crashes)

All the best everyone, look at the progress that has been made in such a short time!

OSX has got me enjoying PC's again! :)

 

try installing Microsoft Virtual PC if you wanna run windows inside OSX...

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virt.../virtualpc.aspx

LOL, don't run VPC. If it even runs at all (does it need altivec?) it would be even slower than it already is on a PPC mac. You'd be emulating x86 on ppc, and that ppc part would be emulated on your x86. hehe.

 

I thought someone had QEMU working, but it is really slow even with KQEMU on linux, and that part can't be ported to OS X.

I don't know, no topic ever goes as scheduled here for some reason. grr.

 

The original poster was asking about running Windows apps on OS X (x86). So, the only solution that runs really anything is darwine at this point, and it doesn't even run much.

Click APPLE > About This Mac

 

And tell me which version do you get?

 

For me its the tiger-x86.img donwloaded as deadmoo image

i got the 10.4.1

 

When installing Guest PC (latest version) they tell me I msut have OSX 10.4.5 or 10.4.2 or 10.5 NOTE : I FORGET WHICH THE CORRENT VERSION THEY ASK.

 

How about your dvd installer which version do you get?

 

jalal,

In your screenshot earlier, is that GuestPC running on the x86 OSX version or on a normal PPC Mac?

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