Running Mac OS X on x86 PC!

[S.MULLA]

a new emulator called PearPC seems to be able to run OS X on x86 machines:

http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/index.html

Check out the screenshots:

http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

source:aqua-soft.org [forum]

[Emon]

Use teh nightly optimized builds. much better.

using it as we speak :D .. I don't see any performance boost though ..

[HellBender]

Use teh nightly optimized builds. much better.

richardgoodwin.com/pearpc

Woo, thanks for the link!

[werejag]

lol

[KlyX]

*lol* too, realliy nice this screenie.

About the Nightly builds. I'm trying these for days now an at the moment with the athlon xp optimized and it looks like this would not be much fastern.

And about the RAM: I think 256 MB is quite okay, because there is a little difficult: PearPC has to emulate the RAMs. So it works slower if it has to emulate more RAM, BUT on the other side it should speed up the OS X System. So 256 is the mid-way (or something like this ;) ).

[uniacid]

hmm yeah I didn't notice a big difference either in the optimized builds

[evacsoul]

sorry about the confusion, but i changed it to D in my new config as well. i tried evacsoul's suggestion and i managed to get the PPC screen, but then i get this message:

[CPU/MMU] new pagetable: sdr1 = 0x00300003

[CPU/MMU] new pagetable: sdr1 accepted

[CPU/MMU] number of pages: 2^15 pagetable_start: 0x00300000 size: 2^18

[iO/PROM] <Error> Can't open boot file

right before i get the last line with the error, PPC shows only one bootable partition, labeled:

"1. partition 2 of 'disk0' (Apple_HFS_Untitled_2/Apple_HFS)

i pick this as my choice and then i get the error...

What's the name of your install cd image?

[Rudy]

ok well im thinking about trying it, now i have a question for you guys

i have both Fedora Core 2 and Windows XP Pro installed on my PC.....Which one should i use? the Linux version on Windows? I was thinking Windows because the drivers for my hardware are better but i dont know if it matters or not

[Emon]

ok well im thinking about trying it, now i have a question for you guys

i have both Fedora Core 2 and Windows XP Pro installed on my PC.....Which one should i use? the Linux version on Windows? I was thinking Windows because the drivers for my hardware are better but i dont know if it matters or not

u probably should try it on Linux .. Networking works there but doesn't work in windows

[nut_sak_himself]

how do you think this would run on a athlon 64 with say 1gig of ram??

[Fozzieb]

Ask Dazla, i think thats his setup

[Rudy]

Networking works there but doesn't work in windows

what about in the nightly build??

[urizen]

hehe, monkey island!

Howd you get american flag there :o

You get a flag in the menubar when you choose a different keyboard layout than US (in my case polish). The flag is used to switch between laouts. Just like the language bar in Windows' taskbar.

[Bluetooth]

nightly build seems faster (the trunk one)

Josh

[Bluetooth]

does anyone know how to make more then just 2 drives? is it possible to make 3 or 4?

Josh

[Keitero-sama]

I got that error for a while. What is the exact filesize of your disk image when you get that error?

When I recieved that error, I found that my 6gb images were only extracting to ~4 gigabytes (hence, the faulty disk geometry). I checked the disk the PearPC was on and found out to be a Fat32 drive.

A Fat32 drive will only support filesizes up to ~4gb in size, hence the whole disk image could not be extracted and used.

I converted my drive to NTFS and it created the whole 6gb drive file that worked perfectly.

Here lies that issue, all my drives are NTFS.

[ATLien_0]

:no: Ok im new here but i satrted installing 10.3 and the installer stops at 21 mins left at the Running installer script stage. Could I have a bad iso? And command prompt keeps saying <warning> command sleep stud.

[Rob2687]

wait for it...it takes a while sometimes

[XiXora]

mine worked... it all installed then it quit... i booted it again ( after changing the slave to 0 ) and it started installing again!

it got to the installer script again then... it stuck at like 49 mins for like 8 hours...

oh well.

[jbartone]

Mine got stuck at the installer script too. But apparently that is normal, and even when it quits OS X is all installed properly.

Here is the guide I followed:

http://www.emaculation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1102

[phalanx126]

evacsoul, the name of my cd image is 'Mac OSX 10.3 CD 1.iso' . is this supposed to be an .img file?

also, i used ultraiso to convert Mac OSX 10.3 CD 1.dmg to Mac OSX 10.3 CD 1.iso, but i've heard that converting from .dmg to .iso on a PC isn't possible. could this be the problem?

[okt00]

anyone know about multiple drives yet?

[AcdShdw]

their is a way to use ur existing cd as it, just needa edit the config to see it

[Bluetooth]

My installation has been stalled for a long time, anyone know if this is normal? How long should I leave it?

Josh

[Rob2687]

depends on what u mean by 'a long time'. i left 10.3 over night from like 8-10pm to 6 am for disc 1

[ATLien_0]

It stalled at 21 mins for over 6hours so i quit install. Do u think if i switch slave to 0 osx will still boot up. If not ill reformat and start install over