Mac-on-Mac?

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Mac-on-Mac?

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Has anyone got Mac-on-Mac to work on Intel hardware (10.6)?

I figure with Mini vMac running System 1 to 7.5.5, BII picking up from there to 8.1, SheepShaver covering 8.5-9.0.1, PearPC (I run it inside WineSkin) running 10.1-10.4, and VirtualBox running 10.4-10.6, we're missing MacOS 9.1 through OS X 10.0, which Mac-on-Mac purportedly runs.

Does it require a PPC chip, and so has to run inside PearPC or SheepShaver?

I just get:

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10-11-23 11:18:19 PM	[0x0-0x162162].com.apple.myCocoaApp[15734]	Fatal error: Failed to open ~/Library/Mac-on-Mac/VM2/session.map
10-11-23 11:19:38 PM	[0x0-0x162162].com.apple.myCocoaApp[15734]	/Applications/Emulation/Apple/Macintosh/Mac-On-Mac.app/Contents/MacOS/momstart: line 10: ./modload: No such file or directory
10-11-23 11:27:40 PM	[0x0-0x162162].com.apple.myCocoaApp[15734]	/usr/X11/bin/xinit:  connection to X server lost.
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Post by Ronald P. Regensburg »

I once did have a copy of MOM (Mac-on-Mac) running on a PPC iMac. MOM is MOL (Mac-on-Linux) ported to MacOSX. It could run in 10.2 and 10.3. If I remember well, X11 needed to be installed. MOM, like MOL, is not an emulator, it runs a virtual machine on PPC natively. Several (classic) MacOS, MacOSX, and Linux versions could be run in the MOM virtual machine. As soon as Apple announced the transition to Intel, development of MOM was stopped because there could be no future for MOM on Intel.

I do not know if MOM can run in MacOSX in PearPC.
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I do not know if MOM can run in MacOSX in PearPC.
Even if it did, it would be extremely slow. You would be better off running Mac-On-Linux in QEMU PowerPC.
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