Re: Darwin 8.0.1 x86 under Qemu/VPC

On Sep 02, 2005, at 11:17, Martin Vrabel wrote:

> 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.
>

Just a little update to my first post for those they don't know if  
any... Darwin's xnu 8.0.1 x86 is by the
default compiled for SSE2 enabled CPU's as VPC 7, VPC 2k4, Qemu /non  
64bit/ and Vmware are
not. This important info is not included in release what makes  
general confusion. Well anyway, there
are basicaly two choices. Whether recompile xnu without SSE2 or get  
P4/AMD64/Opteron server.


Cheers, M.

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