Re: [Qemu-devel] Mac OS X at native speed...

[Natalia Portillo]

Apple will use standard PC architecture: hardware, memory map, ROM  
(the BIOS), etc.
Apple will remain the kernel as Open Source.

Just search XPostFacto.
Was easy to make OS X work in machines not officially supported, and  
so will be.

El 06/06/2005, a las 23:21, Hetz Ben Hamo escribió:

> Not exactly...
>
> As many Apple fans can tell you, apple just love to stick their own
> ROM in there machines (I think it's called open firmware these days).
> Since your own PC doesn't have this ROM (and I imagine they'll add
> couple of tricks more to the package) - you won't be able even to
> install OS X on an avrage PC you buy on the market, unless it came
> from Apple.
>
> Compiling QEMU under OS-X/Pentium machine, that could be another story
> with more more success...
>
> Thanks,
> Hetz
>
> On 6/6/05, Oliver Gerlich <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > Could this:
> > http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/06/06/1752234.shtml? 
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> > help to run Mac OS X at near-native speed on x86? I'd really like  
> > to try
> >  OS X myself, but money-wise Qemu will most likely be the only way  
> > for me...
> > So maybe this switch to x86 could eliminate any byte ordering  
> > slowdowns
> > and make it run as fast as x86-on-x86?
> >
> > Curious about comments from insiders,
> > Oliver Gerlich
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