From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ET4IN-0005a3-3p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:19:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ET4IJ-0005Y5-H9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:19:22 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ET4IJ-0005Y1-DH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:19:19 -0400 Received: from [128.8.10.163] (helo=po1.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ET4II-0001bP-B0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:19:18 -0400 Received: from jbrown.mylinuxbox.org (jma-box.student.umd.edu [129.2.253.219]) by po1.wam.umd.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j9LLJDKC006798 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:19:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:19:10 -0400 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] User-space emulation on Mac OS X to run Mac OS X Intel applications Message-ID: <20051021211910.GA13467@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <711013f80510211316t2d3d1f5fkcab79e82cb45676b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <711013f80510211316t2d3d1f5fkcab79e82cb45676b@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:16:18PM +0100, Steven wrote: > Hi all, > > Looking at qemu, it seems as if it could be possible to allow it to > run Intel OS X apps on PowerPC OS X, much like a reverse Rosetta. The > x86 frameworks/libraries are included with Xcode, so possibly > everything else could run natively, just have the app itself emulated. > > Is anybody willing to try getting this to work? > > Thanks, > Steve > AFAIK no one is working on it. user emulation is strictly linux-only for the time being. (1) Getting this to work isn't very hard at all, you'd just have to change the syscall code to be what Darwin uses. (1) I believe there is an m68k target being worked on, which is not strictly linux only. I haven't looked at it very closely and am not sure of the details. But this doesn't really help you anyways. -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.