Windows XP

[teh_spy]

Hi, I'm new (Did I give it away already?) and I was wondering if you can emulate and/or install Yellow Dog Linux on Windows XP (MCE).
I wanted to install it because I was angry with Bill Gates.

Thanks.

[ppietro]

Hi, I'm new (Did I give it away already?) and I was wondering if you can emulate and/or install Yellow Dog Linux on Windows XP (MCE).
I wanted to install it because I was angry with Bill Gates.

Thanks.

Nope - sorry. Any machine that would run Windows XP would be an Intel microprocessor based machine. YDL runs on PowerPC processors only.

Your best bet is one of the Intel Linuxes - like Fedora or Ubuntu.

Cheers,
Paul

[teh_spy]

Hi, I'm new (Did I give it away already?) and I was wondering if you can emulate and/or install Yellow Dog Linux on Windows XP (MCE).
I wanted to install it because I was angry with Bill Gates.

Thanks.

Nope - sorry. Any machine that would run Windows XP would be an Intel microprocessor based machine. YDL runs on PowerPC processors only.

Your best bet is one of the Intel Linuxes - like Fedora or Ubuntu.

Cheers,
Paul

Ah, thanks. I can't emulate it either?

[ppietro]

Ah, thanks. I can't emulate it either?

You'd have to do a pure emulation - not virtualization. PowerPC emulators for Intel (x86, x86-64) are very rare. The only one that I know of is QEMU.

I tried loading YDL on QEMU's PowerPC emulation, and never got it past the boot stage.

So - I would say: No, you can't emulate it either.

If you want something closest to the YDL experience on your PC, try CentOS:
http://www.centos.org/

That's an open source recompile of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It's also the basis for YDL 6.x

Cheers,
Paul

[Venom187]

i have had good luck with http://www.virtualbox.org/ for emulation it's free and it works and easy to use i was able to run xp inside of xp. Although not sure if it supports ppc or not.

[billb]

i have had good luck with http://www.virtualbox.org/ for emulation it's free and it works and easy to use i was able to run xp inside of xp. Although not sure if it supports ppc or not.

No, that only runs on x86.

[ppietro]

i have had good luck with http://www.virtualbox.org/ for emulation it's free and it works and easy to use i was able to run xp inside of xp. Although not sure if it supports ppc or not.

No, that only runs on x86.

Also - VirtualBox is considered a virtualizer, not just an emulator. I get the differences confused myself, but there's an explanation here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Virtualization

What this means is that it can only run x86 guest operating systems on x86 host systems. You can't mix processor architectures like x86 and ppc or mips. You'd need an emulator for that.

Cheers,
Paul

[Noons]

I rememder seeing this emulator call pearpc and it might do what you want done

http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/

[bonedome]

Hello
I can't help thinking if you're that miffed with bill, as Paul said get ubuntu or fedora and install over the top of xp, I installed fedora 12 on my old laptop the other week and it's pretty much identical to ydl (don't tell 'em I said that)
That said you can get a version of damn small linux (maybe puppy linux aswell) with embedded qemu that can be run from a usb/sd card/stick on windows as if it where a normal file (so no need to reboot), it's pretty slow though compared to the bootable version

[Venom187]

i have had good luck with http://www.virtualbox.org/ for emulation it's free and it works and easy to use i was able to run xp inside of xp. Although not sure if it supports ppc or not.

No, that only runs on x86.

Also - VirtualBox is considered a virtualizer, not just an emulator. I get the differences confused myself, but there's an explanation here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Virtualization

What this means is that it can only run x86 guest operating systems on x86 host systems. You can't mix processor architectures like x86 and ppc or mips. You'd need an emulator for that.

Cheers,
Paul

True but he is wanting to emulate from a x86 arch. YDL is not what he is wanting. Virtualbox would allow him to run windows and a x86 linux distro, without the need for repartitioning his current file system, and avoid the risk of wipeing out his windows install. Would produce better results over qemu. Being that it is not emulating. VB has nice easy to use and follow gui so you don't have to deal with command line. Perfect for a beginner to test linux to see if it is right for them.