So after following the advice in the aforementioned thread and successfully getting QEMU KVM to install Tiger, I wanted to attempt to get MOL KVM working (as best as possible). QEMU KVM is currently serving great results for various platforms (including Linux PPC), however MOL appears to have the edge on performance and as we know on these old machines, every speed improvement counts. The result of KVM is much improved (near native) speed on the same hardware. My understanding is that in KVM "mode", an entire CPU (or thread) is allocated to the task of virtualising the assigned virtual machine. KVM essentially means that the VM guest can access the CPU hardware directly. During this period MOL development was active and early OS X support was well underway.Īlthough the software had mostly laid dormant throughout the past decade (official OS X guest supported ended at 10.3 Panther), there has been more recent development with added support for Tiger and KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) on Linux ppc / ppc64. I recall Debian, Yellow Dog and Slackware were the go to distros for PPC at the time.
#Mac on linux mol mac os
Back in about 1999 - 2000 I can recall setting up and operating Mac OS 8.6 (my favoured version of Mac OS at the time) on an underpowered Power Macintosh 7220/200 (603ev) with 160MB EDO RAM, which was a learning platform for me to run various flavours of Linux. The software has been around for decades.
Mac-On-Linux is an emulator / virtualising solution for PowerPC to run Mac OS (X) atop a Linux PPC installation. Firstly, props to for an earlier thread " PowerMac G5 running Linux with a PowerPC virtual machine" which was inspiration to tackle MOL KVM and as stated in that thread, any record "On paper so to speak" is useful as there aren't a great deal of resources for this topic.
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