Re: [tlug] A mac linux question

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Pietro Zuco wrote:
> On Thursday 11 July 2002 10:22, Simon Cozens wrote:
> 
> > There's Mac-On-Linux, of course. I don't know if that can run OS X, but it
> > can certainly run OS 9.
> >
> > Don't expect this to work on x86, naturally.
> 
> Why I don't have to expect about an emulator for x86?
> Are there not and like VMware 68K emulator for linux on x86?
> 
> Thankyou.

VMWare does not emulate the x86 processor; it just emulates the PC
environment--the video card, the IDE devices, the I/O chips, the BIOS,
and so on. That's why VMWare is as fast as it is, and it's also the
biggest reason why VMWare hasn't been--and cannot ever be--ported to MacOS. 

Mac-on-liunx uses a similar model--emulate a Mac, but not the PowerPC
CPU. To get Mac-on-linux to work on x86, you first need to write yourself a
PowerPC emulator, since I don't think anyone has ever completed one--the
"Mac emulators" on the market still only emulate m680x0 code, as far as I know.
If you're happy with 68k emulation only, look at Basilisk and Ardi Executor.