Win emulators for FC 5 PPC64?
Ian Burrell
ianburrell at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 19:17:20 UTC 2006
Brian Durant <brian <at> durant.dk> writes:
>
> Are there any Win emulators out there for FC 5 PPC64? Seems like PPC
> users are left out in the cold, since there is no WINE or Crossover
> Office for us.
>
> Bochs could be a possibility, but the native Mac version that the
> commercial product WinTel http://openosx.com/wintel/index.html get very
> bad reviews http://macwindows.com/pcemul.html#wintel so I would assume
> Bochs isn't ready for prime time on the PPC platform yet either
>
There is also Qemu. Since PPC is a different processor architecture than i386,
emulating Windows requires a processor emulator, not just paravirtualization
like VMware, or API emulation like Wine. Processor emulation is significantly
slower.
- Ian
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