Virtual Box on Power PC Procesers G5 Edtion

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rick12542
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Virtual Box on Power PC Procesers G5 Edtion

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Is there a version of vb for osx 10.5.8 or 10.5.9 for power pc procesers, own a g5 an a mac book pro and i need vb on my G5 so is ther a version?
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Re: Virtual Box on Power PC Procesers G5 Edtion

Post by mpack »

Nope. VirtualBox is not a CPU simulator. Code runs natively, so the only way you can run x86 code with VBox is to run it on an x86 CPU. There are x86 simulators for PowerPC, but they are essentially toys: far too slow for real work, except maybe with DOS.
rick12542
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Re: Virtual Box on Power PC Procesers G5 Edtion

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so no way to like get a pach even if i when to linux to download it ?
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Re: Virtual Box on Power PC Procesers G5 Edtion

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I refer the honorable gentleman to my previous answer.
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Re: Virtual Box on Power PC Procesers G5 Edtion

Post by stefan.becker »

Its a dead platform.

There are some old power pc linux distros like yellow dog. But only for dual boot.

There is no virtualizer that can give you a solution for four problem.
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