Re: "VMWare" for the Mac - running OSX on OSX

FROM : David Jeffery
DATE : Wed Apr 27 21:36:32 2005

On Apr 27, 2005, at 12:09, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On Apr 27, 2005, at 7:59 AM, Darkshadow wrote:
>

>> MacOnLinux is pretty cool.  I compiled it a bit ago (back in
>> December) - the source code has been updated since, but I haven't had
>> the time to get the new source and play with it.  Compiling it was a
>> bit problematic.  It will, but I had to patch some stuff.
>>
>> Running OS X in it on OS X is quite buggy, though.  It tends to
>> kernel panic and crash often.  Well, with the code I've compiled
>> with.  As I said, it was updated recently, so perhaps some of these
>> issues have been fixed.
>>
>> Feel free to ask me off list if you want any pointers on it, though
>> perhaps I should grab the newest source and play with it before I try
>> answering.

>
> A while back, I went through all the trouble of setting up Linux on a
> spare machine for the explicit purpose of running several copies of OS
> X under MacOnLinux.  Wasn't worth my time, OS X running under
> MacOnLinux is not stable, so it's basically useless.  Doesn't look
> like a new release has been cut since then, either...
>
> -bob


Hmm.  That hasn't been my experience.  For a while I had some version
of Yellow Dog installed on a TiBook and ran, at separate times, Jaguar
and Panther in MOL sessions with no issues that I can recall.  I was
very impressed... it really did seem virtually as fast as just running
Jaguar or Panther directly.  I never did go to the trouble of figuring
out how to run Jaguar and Panther side by side in simultaneous MOL
sessions, though.  I don't think I ever tried a Tiger seed in MOL,
though, nor have I tried compiling MOL to run on Mac OS X.

Things I recall doing in the MOL sessions included running Mail.app,
iTunes, Office v.X, and ProjectBuilder/Xcode/IB.  IIRC, I had some
occasional wake-from-sleep freezes with YDL, though, and ultimately
decided to switch back to just Mac OS X.  I was also disappointed
because I wanted to dabble in Java 5 and I assumed running Linux would
let me do so... then I quickly found that Java is not well supported on
PowerPC Linux... I think I could only find 1.3.x.

I look forward to seeing an official native build of MOL for Mac OS X!

David