Re: Darwin 8.0.1 x86 under Qemu/VPC

Am 02.09.2005 um 11:17 schrieb Martin Vrabel:

> 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.

I'm not sure wether it's a good idea to take Darwin 8.0.1 to  
demonstrate a stable production system. The binary Darwin 8.0.1  
release was made Apple internally, before the corresponding sources  
reached the public and is known to have quirks. It can't be re-built  
from public sources, either.

Alternatives would be the Darwin 7.2.3 release from OpenDarwin or to  
build a current system on your own. The darwinbuild tool seems to  
have become quite usable recently and possibly some of the others on  
this list have an (almost) complete build available privately, already.


> Qemu [...] I use Tiger on PB [...]

The last time I tried it was non-obvious how to get Qemu running on a  
Mac. Do you have some installation instructions handy?


Cheers,
Markus

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