Mac OS 8.6

[Russw]

I searched and didn't find this, but is there a way to virtualize an older Mac OS 8.6? We've got CAD drawings from the 80's that haven't all been converted and we still use an old PowerMac to do the first step of the conversion. But if this Mac dies, we are out of luck, so I was hoping to virtualize it. I don't see that VB can create a non-OSX Mac virtual machine, so that may have answered my question.

[mpack]

Is that based on the PowerPC? If so then no, you can't virtualize it using VirtualBox.

VirtualBox is a hypervisor, not a CPU simulator. Code runs natively on the host processor. So if the code can't run on the host processor (and PowerPC code certainly can't run on an Intel processor) then it won't run at all.

[Russw]

Thanks, that's kind of what I figured.

[socratis]

Take a look at SheepShaver: http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/