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

[Klepinger, Aaron]

Just buy the new Intel Mac Mini rumored to be announced in a few weeks.
:) 

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James P. Kinney III
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 3:41 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Mac OS X x86 vmware image floating on bittorrent

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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