[ale] OT: Mac OS X x86 vmware image floating on bittorrent

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:08 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I downloaded a MAX OS X x86 vmware image from bittorrent.  Maybe someone
> here has it.  When I boot it up I get "Illegal Instruction" from the
> programs that are being executed at startup.  Could the problem be that
> I'm on an AMD Athalon XP chip instead of Intel?  I was assuming that for
> vmware it does not matter but if vmware does not really emulate and
> simply uses the host's processor then maybe I can't play with this
> image? 

I run VMWare on a dual Opteron. The earlier versions (prior to 5.0) just
wouldn't run on 64 bit. The new 5.5 runs like a champ. VMWare really
does emulate the CPU system it is purporting to run on.

I suspect the image may not be perfect. 
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