The past few days I've been building up a test installation of our product under Virtual PC for the Mac. I'm quite impressed with the speed of Windodws and Linux images running under Virtual PC on my Powerbook, considering the difference in architecture and processor type.
Like VMware, Virtual PC allows you to create a "virtual" machine that can house another operating system installation entirely, however Virtual PC is emulating an x86 system rather than a PowerPC system.
I've got one image with Windows 2003 Server installed, running SQL server, Active Directory, IIS and a bunch of other services and it still is reasonably snappy. Another image is SuSE Professional 9.2 with a build environment installed on it.
I'm wondering if there's a similar product to VMware for the Mac, that will let you run multiple virtual machines of the same processor/architecture type for the Mac? (eg. to run a Panther VM on a Tiger host?) Something kind of like PearPC but taking advantage of the local system rather than emulating everything in software?
Posted by crafterm at April 3, 2005 03:57 PM | TrackBackThere isn't anything like that (native PPC emulator) that I know of. Would've been very useful for playing with the Tiger beta builds though.
Posted by: Chris Miles at April 4, 2005 04:39 PM