Darwin 8.0.1 x86 under Qemu/VPC

Martin Vrabel <[email protected]> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:17:29 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.opendarwin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello folks,

I'm new fella here and I'd like to ask if anybody has successfully  
installed Darwin 8.0.1 x86
under Qemu 0.7.1 on PPC Tiger /or Project Q I use/ or VPC 7.0.2.

I'd like to possibly switch some of my FreeBSD server boxes into  
Darwin x86 to demonstrate
that Darwin OS is for server purposes as good as his cousins *BSDs or  
Linux OS. But before
realizing this idea I want to get into Darwin x86 under some emu./ 
virt. software.

Qemu problem:

CPU: x86
Option: platform=x86 -v
Darwin freezes after kernel has been loaded.

CPU: x86-64
Option: platform=x86 -v
Surprisingly it's booting and installation runs with uncompression  
errors on .tar.bz2 packages.
/packages are not corrupted/. Booting after whole installations ends  
is not successful, Darwin is
missing some dylibs as libncurses etc..


VPC problem:

Hard to tell, VPC hangs with "Unrecoverrable CPU Error" when kernel  
loading.


I use Tiger on PB and I'd be thankful for any advice. Thx, Don  
Martinello.

Martin Vrabel <http://www.scitech.sk>
Unix is not only an OS, it is a way of life.