[Xastir] VMWare for Mac

[Bob Nielsen]

On Dec 29, 2006, at 4:27 AM, jdw at eng.uah.edu wrote:

>
> Curt Mills wrote:
>
>> I think this is only for the Intel Mac's?
>
> It's conceivable to have it run on PPC macs - there was a product  
> called
> VirtualPC thatwould allow intel emulation on PPC macs.  Microsoft
> assimilated the company, and I never got the microsoft branded  
> virtual PC
> to work reliably with linux or solaris x86.
>
> In any event it was a dog - performance was such that you wouldn't  
> want to
> use it unless you absolutely had to.

That's quite true.  I have the latest version with XP and it is  
really a pain to use (increasing the RAM to 1GB helped a lot,  
however).  Emulating a different architecture causes performance to  
take quite a hit.

When I saw that there was a version for the Mac, I hoped it would be  
for PPC so I could run a PPC version of Linux in a virtual machine.   
I guess there isn't enough of a market for that however.

Bob, N7XY