[wellylug] Multi O/S boot issue

[Donald Gordon]

On 07 Nov 2002 13:18:33 +1300 Damon Lynch <damon at dev-zone.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 13:06, David McNab wrote:
> 
> > Solution in one word - VMware
> 
> That's a nice piece of software technically but ouch the price!!! 
> 
> Hey, did everyone see this:
> 
> Mac On Linux: PPC users got us on this one!
> http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2519&lang=en
> 
> Think something like a hybrid VMware / win4lin for the Mac.... except
> it's free!!
> 
> Personally I have no need for any Mac software at all.  But it's kinda
> weird to see the Mac folks in a nicer position than the Wintel folks for
> a change ;-) hehehehe

The PowerPC processors used in modern Macs are fully virtualisable (i.e.
it's impossible for the software running to tell that it's in a virtual
enviroment).  The x86 processors used in PCs aren't; VMware and plex86
have to do a lot of work behind the scenes to simulate this, hence their
complexity.

don

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