[NTLK] G5 > Ubuntu > VirtualBox > OSX? (was: Need a 'new' desktop)

[Tony Morrow]

I don't think you will have luck with VirtualBox. There is no PPC build as
far as I know. It doesn't do x86 processor emulation like VirtualPC did on
macs. Instead it executes the instructions directly on he processor of the
host machine.

To do what you want you would have to use something like QEMU which
includes the emulation layer for x86 code. The problem the is the
performance hit you take. Last time I tried QEMU on a G4 the resulting
virtual machine was significantly slower than one in VPC.

-Tony Morrow
Http://lookanotherblog.com
On Aug 9, 2013 12:39 PM, "Chris Browder" <kcfoxie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mac-on-Linux would be the better project to utilize for virtualized Mac OS
> X. It hasn't been updated since 2007, around Ubuntu 7.10, but it can be
> recompiled for a modern kernel. That would give far better performance than
> virtualbox and could possibly be spun into a 'wine' like implementation or
> at te very least a "classic" environment operation with a modern kernel.
>
> That said I am no programmer. Just a muse.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:13 PM, iSpinn <ispinn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've had plenty of success extending the G5 PPC line,
> > finding its hacked software others have put together
> > to keep it running, and even dual booting it into both
> > OSX and Ubuntu – there's an Ubuntu PowerPC fork
> > for that that's available. Lots of new landscape there,
> > and well worth the time investment.
> >
> > I just had an interesting thought -- what about a G5
> > PPC running Ubuntu running Oracle's VirtualBox
> > running OSX? I suggest that because although it's a
> > hefty surcharge in CPU cycles to get OSX running
> > that way, could its software underpinnings provide
> > the flash support that the G5 lacks? Unfortunately
> > I can't say and I don't have my G5 hardware here
> > to test it.
> >
> > Anyone?
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >
> > It's actually quite possible to get the latest Flash hacked onto a PPC
> Mac,
> > or so I've seen. And I just tweaked TenFourFox to use plugins on my PB
> G4,
> > and Flash worked as well as can be expected.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Well, my first Mac was a G3, then I got a G4, so I guess it only made
> sense
> > to get a G5, right? :D
> >
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