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TheMud
10-03-2010, 03:16 AM
Is it possible to launch AMIGA OS4.1
with vmware Workstation ? ...

I tried but didnt manage
Piru
10-03-2010, 03:44 AM
No
lsmart
10-03-2010, 03:52 AM
Is there a version of VMWare that emulates PPC hardware now? Maybe you were thinking of AROS instead?
Karlos
10-03-2010, 03:56 AM
VMWare is, AFAIK, a virtualization system only. If you want to be able to run PPC guest operating systems on x86/64, you need a proper emulator such as quemu or pearpc. Even then, I suspect you probably won't get very far.
Templario
10-03-2010, 04:36 AM
No, because you must think that VMWARE only work and emulates X86 machines not PPC or 68k CPUs and machines.
kolla
10-03-2010, 04:43 AM
VMware, Linux and eUAE works nicely together though :)
persia
10-03-2010, 06:58 AM
You forgot to recompile OS4 for intel rather than PPC. Do that and it should work....
TheMud
10-03-2010, 07:08 AM
Im most suddenly not thinking of AROS... Tried that and is a nice project, but quite useless.

Just wanted to try os4.1 out. Didnt get it to work though.

Have Ubuntu and plenty other os's on vmware - love to play with other os's ...

Think Windows 7 soon will leave my laptop for Ubuntu 10.10
Karlos
10-03-2010, 07:16 AM
Im most suddenly not thinking of AROS... Tried that and is a nice project, but quite useless.

Just wanted to try os4.1 out. Didnt get it to work though.

As I said, you'd need to use qemu or pearpc to stand even a remote chance. VMWare isn't going to help you run a PPC guest OS on x86/64 host hardware at all.
VingtTrois
10-03-2010, 10:10 AM
Is it possible to launch AMIGA OS4.1
with vmware Workstation ? ...

I tried but didnt manage

No AMIGA AOS4.x on virtual machine...only ICAROS (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=54657) on "ORACLE VM VIRTUALBOX"
divined
10-03-2010, 11:30 AM
quite absurd question but they do arise when people fail to understand what how a virtualization environment works.

I don`t think you stand much of a chance!!
kolla
10-03-2010, 12:16 PM
Just wanted to try os4.1 out. Didnt get it to work though.

Where did you get OS4.1 from?
persia
10-03-2010, 01:30 PM
I'm guessing he got it from TPB....
cha05e90
10-03-2010, 01:49 PM
Where did you get OS4.1 from?
Hooray. True Amiga-style... :-(
Karlos
10-03-2010, 01:51 PM
Hooray. True Amiga-style... :-(

Kolla poses a perfectly valid question. There aren't any places you can buy it that give you the slightest impression it will work on x86 machines ;)
Methuselas
10-03-2010, 02:48 PM
As I said, you'd need to use qemu or pearpc to stand even a remote chance. VMWare isn't going to help you run a PPC guest OS on x86/64 host hardware at all.

Isn't pearpc dead, anyways? I remember hearing something about the maintainer passing away a few years ago..... **** was pretty fast when I remember it. Sad it never saw the light of day.
Karlos
10-03-2010, 03:44 PM
Isn't pearpc dead, anyways? I remember hearing something about the maintainer passing away a few years ago..... **** was pretty fast when I remember it. Sad it never saw the light of day.

Hmm, I didn't know that; it's a real shame. If you can find a binary that works, I'm sure it has scaled reasonably well with faster x86 hardware that's come on since.
persia
10-03-2010, 08:11 PM
Apple's move to intel rendered it irrelevant. That and the primary developer was killed in a bicycle accident...
tone007
10-03-2010, 08:14 PM
PearPC did work well though, I had a copy on my old Gateway laptop and it ran PPC OSX very nicely. I might still have it on DVD somewhere...
Methuselas
10-04-2010, 12:42 AM
Apple's move to intel rendered it irrelevant. That and the primary developer was killed in a bicycle accident...

Yeah! That's what it was. I was fairly sad when I read that. :(