Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE

[Karlos]

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.

[Karlos]

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.

[Karlos]

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

[Karlos]

Isn't pearpc dead, anyways? I remember hearing something about the maintainer passing away a few years ago..... Shit 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.