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Have a look at Mac-on-Linux, the LinuxPPC virtualizer equivalent:

Mac-on-Linux

It uses the Linux ethertap driver to create a virtual ethernet within your computer. You can then set up a router (including, if you wish, masquerading) between this and your normal ethernet card - or PPP connection - or whatever.

If that's too complex you can instead just attach it to your regular ethernet interface, though obviously you would then need two IP addresses. I don't know whether it uses promisc mode for this.

There's been a LinuxPPC Mac virtualizer, Mac on Linux, for quite a while longer than plex86 has existed.

What have you learnt from MOL? Is it easier to virtualise an OS on PPC (if so, why?) Are the necessary kernel modifications between the two packages similar, and should/could there be some sort of generic kernel virtualiser API across all flavours of Linux? (i.e. are any bits of it not CPU dependent?)

Do you see plex86 and MOL co-operating on, for instance, the Linux side of a 3D graphics card emulator? (That would be extremely cool!) Or can you use the ethernet/ethertap code from MOL to enhance plex86's networking?

What, in general, do you think of MOL?

I wonder not so much about Apple's hardware versus their software. They make some great pieces of hardware and bring it to the masses before a lot of other companies. Look at Apple's 22" Cinema display or Airport networking.

I've been using LinuxPPC for a while now on my PowerBook 2000. I can dual-boot with the MacOS (9) if I want to or even better use MacOnLinux. Why should I load MacOSX? I have a great, well supported, stable version of Linux and can still run my MacOS applications (ok, there are some exceptions, Diablo2 won't run because of copy protection). OSX still isn't here and developers are only slowly announcing support.

I'll continue to buy Apple hardware because they make good things, but will I continue to run Apple's OS (and therefore support MacOS software vendors)? Only time will tell.

Apple should have split up their hardware and software divisions long ago. Even if one goes out of business the other has a better chance of surviving.

I have a iBook with both a LinuxPPC and a MacOS partition (personally, i love Linux way more, but that's my taste)

Anyways, while booted up in Linux, i run a program called Mac-On-Linux, which will load the MacOS partition, full screen, under X. Then, once you are there, you load up a Mac program called Virtual PC, and *boom*, Windows 98 loads up, under MacOS, under Linux.

The fun just never ends. =^)
-legolas

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