[TriLUG] Linux on my PowerPC Mac mini running in emulation under OS X.5

Greg Brown gwbrown1 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 10:32:33 EDT 2008


That looks pretty cool and I like that you can build it from source yourself
but it appears that only OS X running on an Intel box is supported.  :(

I'll keep searching.

Greg

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:52 AM, <ajray at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> I use Sun's virtualBox Open Source edition.  I havent heard it mentioned
> on this list before so I thought I'd put it in.
>
> Quote from their page:
> "Sun xVM VirtualBox software is the world's most popular open source
> virtualization platform because of its fast performance, ease of use, rich
> functionality, and modular design."
>
> Find it here:
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
>
> ~Cheers
>
> > Do I have any OSS options for the virtual machine emulator?  I'd like to
> > run
> > a mostly bare-bones debian install: no gui, just ssh, nmap and a few
> other
> > tools.  I suppose I could go the Fink route but I'm not sure of the
> > long-term issues of staying on the PowerPC platform.  Suggestions?
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