Re: [Qemu-devel] Mac OS X at native speed...

[Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh@gmail.com>]

Not exactly.

XpostFacto let you install OS X on macs with PPC chips (G3 as
minimum), not on Intel based PC's.

Apple will *not* let users install OS-X/ X86 on your PC. Thats the
official word from Phil Schiller, Vice president of worldwide
marketting at Apple.

So, I'm pretty sure Apple will use some tricks to not-allow users to
install OS-X/X86 on non-apple  X86 based machines by using some tricks
(different BIOS, additional ROM, or some heavy modifications to some
chipset).

Sure, Darwin can run on any X86 machine, but it's not going to be easy
running OS-X/X86 that easily..

Hetz

On 6/9/05, Natalia Portillo <claunia@claunia.com> wrote:
> Apple will use standard PC architecture: hardware, memory map, ROM
> (the BIOS), etc.
> Apple will remain the kernel as Open Source.
> 
> Just search XPostFacto.
> Was easy to make OS X work in machines not officially supported, and
> so will be.
> 
> El 06/06/2005, a las 23:21, Hetz Ben Hamo escribió:
> 
> > Not exactly...
> >
> > As many Apple fans can tell you, apple just love to stick their own
> > ROM in there machines (I think it's called open firmware these days).
> > Since your own PC doesn't have this ROM (and I imagine they'll add
> > couple of tricks more to the package) - you won't be able even to
> > install OS X on an avrage PC you buy on the market, unless it came
> > from Apple.
> >
> > Compiling QEMU under OS-X/Pentium machine, that could be another story
> > with more more success...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hetz
> >
> > On 6/6/05, Oliver Gerlich <olig9@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> Hash: SHA1
> >>
> >> Could this:
> >> http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/06/06/1752234.shtml?
> >> tid=118&tid=179&tid=3
> >> help to run Mac OS X at near-native speed on x86? I'd really like
> >> to try
> >>  OS X myself, but money-wise Qemu will most likely be the only way
> >> for me...
> >> So maybe this switch to x86 could eliminate any byte ordering
> >> slowdowns
> >> and make it run as fast as x86-on-x86?
> >>
> >> Curious about comments from insiders,
> >> Oliver Gerlich
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
> >>
> >> iD8DBQFCpJ5tTFOM6DcNJ6cRAmPqAJ4vpF8B8KETNVd3hPhC6MEpa13DiQCgmM4t
> >> uNq6QoDKyFyMiZia3hYdllI=
> >> =VOCw
> >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Qemu-devel mailing list
> >> Qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> >> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Qemu-devel mailing list
> > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
> >
> 
>