Comments on: Running OSX on XP?

By: Skitalo

Skitalo — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:42:08 +0000

I am running OS X 10.3.9 on XP Pro SP2+ within Cherry OS 1.0 (Yes I was one of the quick people to get that) and it seems to be running ok.
That is once you get the hang of it all with Cherry OS, which is pretty basic really…
It is running a bit sluggish though, but I reckon this is partly because of the fact that I have an ageing AMD Barton ticking at 2.1Ghz and 512MB DDR PC3200.
Safari seems to behave rather naturally and funny enough IE 5.2 is quite quick (relatively speaking).
I think for testing or experimental purposes it is all right.
It does not feel like a proper G4 though.

Like your design.
Best regards
Skitalo

By: jeff_we34

jeff_we34 — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 04:01:28 +0000

In this article I’ve written a step by step instruction for setting up OSX in Windows XP. You will need a few things to get started. The first being pearpc available Here. This is an architecture emulator that will allow you to run OSX. You will also need the PearPC Config file to setup OSX, I have written one for you, for ease of use. You can download it Here. Now on with the walkthrough.

NOTE: forward slashes are stripped out by the PHPNuke for security reasons. I have swapped out the forward slash with the backslash. Please switch these only when referring to X:/.

1. set the PPCCFG file to use the Darwin 10.3 ISO (darwin-701.iso) for pci_ide0_slave_image

2. boot off Darwin and when asked for installation device enter “shell” to get a shell

3. enter pdisk

4. enter e and then /dev/disk0 to edit the partition map of the hard disk

5. enter i to initialize the disk

6. confirm the default values by pressing enter to each

7. enter p to print the preliminary partition map and note the length of the Apple_Free partition

8. enter C to create a new partition entry

9. enter 64 as first block then the length of the Apple_Free partition from above.

10. enter Mac_OS_X as partition name and Apple_HFS as partition type.

11. enter w to write to partition map, confirm with y and then enter q and q to quit pdisk

12. enter reboot and wait for PearPC to quit

13. restart PearPC

14. when asked enter 1 as device, 0 as partition and then yes to confirm the installation to the selected disk. press 1 to reboot when prompted

15. change the PPCCFG file to use OSX.V10.3.Panther.1.iso for pci_ide0_slave_image and restart PearPC

16. begin installing OS X

17. items to not install (if CD2 and CD3 are not present):

——— additional applications (requires CD2)
——— printer drivers (requires CD2)
——— fonts (requires CD2)
——— additional speech voices
——— language translations
——— x11 (requires CD3)

18. after reboot if installing additional OS X items change the PPCCFG file to read: pci_ide0_slave_image = “x:/OSX.V10.3.Panther.2.iso” or pci_ide0_slave_image = “x:/OSX.V10.3.Panther.3.iso”

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 14:39:34 +0000

It seems like you were way ahead of your time on this post with concern to the recent speculations on what is possible with the new IntelMac.

By: kahsoon

kahsoon — Mon, 16 May 2005 05:48:27 +0000

by the way my forum url is http://www.kahsoon.com/forum/index.php

By: kahsoon

kahsoon — Mon, 16 May 2005 05:46:51 +0000

I would also love to know if safari can be run under window xp or not…anyone know? kindly message me in my blog forum ok

By: Dara

Dara — Fri, 06 May 2005 14:30:53 +0000

Why not buy a used Mac on ebay or yahoo? Then you can use it for testing purposes along with the pc you already have. By buying used, you won’t feel like you’re investing a whole lot in a new system and most web testing technologies that you will run on your mac are free (apache,PHP,MySQL,web browsers, text editors and ftp). Infact, you might just become a MacAddict after using it for a little while .

Anyway, that’s my suggestion.