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Operating System Specific Discussions => Amiga OS => Amiga OS 4.x (future) Hardware Compatibility Discussions => Topic started by: TheMud on October 03, 2010, 10:16:03 AM

Title: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: TheMud on October 03, 2010, 10:16:03 AM
Is it possible to launch AMIGA OS4.1
with vmware Workstation ? ...

I tried but didnt manage
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: Piru on October 03, 2010, 10:44:17 AM
No
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: lsmart on October 03, 2010, 10:52:24 AM
Is there a version of VMWare that emulates PPC hardware now? Maybe you were thinking of AROS instead?
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: Karlos on October 03, 2010, 10:56:48 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.
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: Templario on October 03, 2010, 11:36:54 AM
No, because you must think that VMWARE only work and emulates X86 machines not PPC or 68k CPUs and machines.
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: kolla on October 03, 2010, 11:43:16 AM
VMware, Linux and eUAE works nicely together though :)
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: persia on October 03, 2010, 01:58:27 PM
You forgot to recompile OS4 for intel rather than PPC.  Do that and it should work....
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: TheMud on October 03, 2010, 02:08:00 PM
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
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: Karlos on October 03, 2010, 02:16:53 PM
Quote from: TheMud;582750
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.
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: VingtTrois on October 03, 2010, 05:10:29 PM
Quote from: TheMud;582729
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"
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: divined on October 03, 2010, 06:30:59 PM
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!!
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: kolla on October 03, 2010, 07:16:57 PM
Quote from: TheMud;582750
Just wanted to try os4.1 out. Didnt get it to work though.

Where did you get OS4.1 from?
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: persia on October 03, 2010, 08:30:54 PM
I'm guessing he got it from TPB....
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: cha05e90 on October 03, 2010, 08:49:15 PM
Quote from: kolla;582776
Where did you get OS4.1 from?

Hooray. True Amiga-style... :-(
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: Karlos on October 03, 2010, 08:51:53 PM
Quote from: cha05e90;582791
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 ;)
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: Methuselas on October 03, 2010, 09:48:49 PM
Quote from: Karlos;582752
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..... Shit was pretty fast when I remember it. Sad it never saw the light of day.
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: Karlos on October 03, 2010, 10:44:22 PM
Quote from: Methuselas;582803
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.
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: persia on October 04, 2010, 03:11:48 AM
Apple's move to intel rendered it irrelevant.  That and the primary developer was killed in a bicycle accident...
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: tone007 on October 04, 2010, 03:14:20 AM
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...
Title: Re: Amiga OS4.1 on VMWARE
Post by: Methuselas on October 04, 2010, 07:42:18 AM
Quote from: persia;582846
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. :(