OSX86 Cracked!

sieb said:
It runs slow as hell on my P43.0, and networking doesn't work.. :/ I'll just stick to my powerbook for now. :D

http://thatsiebguy.com/stuff/mac86.jpg


Don't link to anywhere describing how to do this.
- odoe
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Nice to see that I'm not the only one experiencing it being slow as hell. I'm trying to image it to a harddrive and booting a PC off it.

UPDATE: It works, and Its fast as hell. I'm running it on a IBM xSeries 206 server with a P4 3.2 Prescott, 2.5gb of ram, 160gb SATA hdd.
 
Oh, another thing about VMWare that I heard will help to speed up Mac OS X on it...involves setting up the virtual hard disk and cd-rom such that they're on the same channel. I actually forgot about that, but I do remember trying it, and it does run a little better this way.
 
ok i got it installed and everything i have the VMware Version, but it loads so slow, is there a way to teak it? I have a 2.4 P4, P4P800, 2x 512 Mushkin PC3200, 9800 XT, also 80GBx2 RAID 0. How did the guy with the laptop get it to run so fast, is it because he did a native install?
 
If anyone runs this on an Athlon64 (with sse3), are there any programs which don't run/glitches? Do the usb ports work fine (including usb 2.0). I'm wondering from a development standpoint if everything functions at full speed or not.

To anyone at all that has it running (preferably not in VMWARE) can you run Xbench and see what score you get? I'd like to compare against my mini, and against the Intel mac benchmarks. Thanks.
 
novagamer192 said:
If anyone runs this on an Athlon64 (with sse3), are there any programs which don't run/glitches? Do the usb ports work fine (including usb 2.0). I'm wondering from a development standpoint if everything functions at full speed or not.

To anyone at all that has it running (preferably not in VMWARE) can you run Xbench and see what score you get? I'd like to compare against my mini, and against the Intel mac benchmarks. Thanks.
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I haven't encountered anything that doesn't run or has glitches. USB works fine, 2.0 works fine (tested with my external hard drive) FireWire works fine, bluetooth works fine. Networking works fine if you have a supported card, and wireless I've heard works if you have a supported wireless card. Everything seems in good order.

As for XBench, I wouldn't use it. It isn't very reliable to begin with, and then the x86 boxes seem to score incredibly low despite the native binary for x86. I think there's something going on there.
 
I have it installed and it boots, but dies >.< It gives me a panic and says soemthing along the lines of "cannot find acpi driver for this system". Is their a way to disable acpi?
 
I've got it running fine, but cant get Rosetta apps (itunes, dvd player) to run eventhough I have SSE3 on my P4 3.0E HT Presscott (eventhough everyone else has gotten them to run). :( Runs fast as hell though. :D
 
devourment77 said:
I have it installed and it boots, but dies >.< It gives me a panic and says soemthing along the lines of "cannot find acpi driver for this system". Is their a way to disable acpi?
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You try booting and hitting enter at the darwin screen, then typing either -x or -F?
 
Got it up and running. Seems to be fairly fast. Didn't have to boot to safe mode, just started running with no problem. Seem to be some graphic glitches in transparency effect, probably cause its running with standard VGA drivers.

Can't seem to get ATI drivers to install or any rosetta apps to run for that matter.


EDIT: Although it does appear to support Hyper-threading as under Activity Monitor there are two CPU graphs.

EDIT 2: Pics
Not 56k friendly (that why no thumbs)
System Prof
http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=8/22403303165.jpg&s=x1

P4 HT
http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=8/22403301618.jpg&s=x1

Dashboard
http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=8/22403295574.jpg&s=x1

System Activity Architecture
http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=8/22403293916.jpg&s=x1

Alt-Tab
http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=8/22403292378.jpg&s=x1
 
yea u really need a good system to get this puppy working nice and smooth, i dont kno how that guy with the laptop got it to run so good
 
You try booting and hitting enter at the darwin screen, then typing either -x or -F?
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Yes I tried both, although if you type ? on the darwin boot option menu, you get a list of options, and one is like platform=ACPI|X86PC and it talks about non acpi pcs. I wonder what the platform tag is if I do not want acpi to run. I tried platform=X86PC and platform=non-ACPI|X86PC and neither worked. I will try more.
 
Absolutely cannot get it running.

I am not going to bother with VMWare. Got the image on the drive and it starts to boot and it gives me the yellow/green screen "Your system must be reboot" error.

In safe mode it gets to the login screen and gives me an error that says my keyboard cannot be identified. Sounds like a USB problem there, PS2 no workie either.

P3 3.0 (Northwood)
Abit IS7
512MB
80GB ATA133

Oh well, would have been fun.
 
To speed it up alot with VMware use this option before it loads
(were it says press any key for startup options)

platform=x86pc
 
I can't get it to install on my system, see sig. I have the untainted iso burned and get farther into the boot process than with the modified version of the disc. All the guides are the same. I have redownloaded the files and no go, rebuilt the image about 6 times. If anyone knows of a guide to modify the iso to make a bootable dvd that would be great, I just hope it isn't one I have already tried.
 
Just use the vmware image that is floating around. Pre-installed, all you'll have to to is patch SSE3 back in.

You could also try installing in vmware and then dd'ing the image to a drive.
 
macosx86XP.JPG


WOOT!!!!
 
Hopefully I'll have it all downloaded before I leave work so I can update with how it works.
 
How would I go about setting up a dual boot with this? I would love to have Windows XP Pro and then Mac OS X on the same hard drive. Do I just need to create a partion on my hard drive and install it on there?
 
Lazy_Moron said:
How would I go about setting up a dual boot with this? I would love to have Windows XP Pro and then Mac OS X on the same hard drive. Do I just need to create a partion on my hard drive and install it on there?
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I'ts quite easy to setup a triple boot of OS X, Windows XP Pro, and Linux :D

Not that I would know... ;)
 
I didn't think it was against the rules, its just a link to another forum.
 
Yes, but can I run this on my XBOX?

XBOX 1.6
Team Xodus S.P.Ice chip
Exo X M8 plus bios
Evo X dashboard (whatever the newest is)
XBMC
200gig Maxtor HDD

When that happens I will be happy. Thats the only Intel chip I have.
 
Is the XBox CPU a Tualatin or a Coppermine? I can't remember if the Tualatin's supported SSE2 or not.
 
it dosn't have to be an intel cpu, it works fine with my amd-64 (as you can see in the screen shot above)
 
acascianelli said:
Is the XBox CPU a Tualatin or a Coppermine? I can't remember if the Tualatin's supported SSE2 or not.
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My Linux machine here in my cube is a Coppermine and doesn't support SSE2. :mad:
 
i got it working on my d600 dell laptop here at work. I dont know how to print screen though.

I might have to buy the hackintosh setup to get sse3 going.
 
i finally got it working properly on my zd7000 notebook. (3.06GHz P4, 768MB RAM, 60GB (but running on my external 250GB)). it runs fairly smooth. but this is in VMWare.

im plannin on building a powerful gaming rig w/in the next few months, so if i can get this installed natively, its gonna fly. SSE3, tweaks, Rosetta. ill be able to run it as fast (or faster) than current G5s and run basically every program evey created for Mac using Rosetta. its gonna be a beautiful thing. :D
 
rosetta is a program in OS X Intel that allows ppl to run PPC (PowerPC) programs on OS X Intel (x86 architecture). you need a SSE3 capable processor to run Rosetta. those are A64s (Venice core and up), and some intel CPUs (im not up on Intel cores).

its gonna be very convenient for me later down the road. Mac OS X on my gamin machine runnin Mac programs. ;) i cant wait :D
 
TSS Modder said:
rosetta is a program in OS X Intel that allows ppl to run PPC (PowerPC) programs on OS X Intel (x86 architecture). you need a SSE3 capable processor to run Rosetta. those are A64s (Venice core and up), and some intel CPUs (im not up on Intel cores).
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I think P4s got SSE3 with the prescott cores and newer.
 
yea, ive got a northwood, and it isnt SSE3 :(

but, yes, prescott appears to be the starting core of SSE3 CPUs.
 
Might want to watch how much info you post about this now that apple seems to have caught on.


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| OS X on x86 Videos Get Apple's Attention |
| from the almost-getting-away-with-it dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 17, @19:01 (OS X) |
| http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/17/2045250 |
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RetrogradeMotion writes "The OSx86 Project is reporting that Apple has served a [0]legal notice to MacBidouille, a French news site that posted videos and instructions on running OS X on x86 hardware . You can find an [1]English translation of the MacBidouille notice on the OSx86Project's forums. This is the first known legal action by Apple regarding the hacked version of OS X and calls into doubt the future of other news sites, similar to the OSx86 Project." Slashdot [2]previously covered the story of hacking OS X onto non-Apple hardware and [3]followed up again a few days later.

Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/08/17/2045250

Links:
0. http://www.macbidouille.com/news/2005-08-17/#11401
1. http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=393
2. http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/11/1523221&tid=179
3. http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/12/207217&tid=179
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I seem to have messed something up doing this. I have gotten it to run on VMWare, but its mad choppy... My computer should be able to handle it...

mycomp:
9600xt 256
a64 3200
250gb sata
1gb dual channel ram


yet when I run mac the input is a bit choppy and so is all the animations and stuff..i think it has to do with the vitrual gfx card.. 16mb? woo lol..

my vmx:

Code: 
#!/usr/bin/vmware
config.version = "8"
virtualHW.version = "4"
memsize = "796"
ide0:0.present = "TRUE"
ide0:0.fileName = "tiger-x86.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "FALSE"
ide1:0.fileName = ""
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
floppy0.startConnected = "TRUE"
floppy0.fileName = "floppy.flp"
ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
displayName = "tiger-x86"
guestOS = "other"
nvram = "tiger-x86.nvram"

ide0:1.present = "FALSE"
ide0:1.fileName = ""
ide0:1.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
floppy0.present = "TRUE"
usb.present = "TRUE"
parallel0.present = "FALSE"
parallel0.fileName = "/dev/lp0"
parallel0.bidirectional = "FALSE"

ide0:0.redo = ""
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
uuid.location = "56 4d 3c 64 9f 07 3d aa-dc d6 ab 84 6a 01 0f 32"
uuid.bios = "56 4d 3c 64 9f 07 3d aa-dc d6 ab 84 6a 01 0f 32"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:01:0f:32"
ethernet0.generatedAddressOffset = "0"

floppy0.fileType = "file"

ide0:0.mode = "persistent"

ide0:1.startConnected = "FALSE"

workingDir = "."
priority.grabbed = "normal"

mainMem.useNamedFile="FALSE"

disable_acceleration = "FALSE"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"

ethernet0.connectionType = "nat"

I have the vmem file disabled...that helped alot..but its still running slow...any ideas?

and if anyone could please tell me an easy way to mount the .img to my slave 60gb that would be awsome :D
 
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