Guest PC is an emulator of the x86 PC for the Mac OS X platform. We had a quick look at the product and we compared it to VirtualPC 6.1 that we also happened to have in-house.
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On Apple hardware, the best I know of right now is QEmu, which is not ideal. If, at some stage, a variant of the QEmu accelerator is added for PPC it'll likely be much faster.
Some IBM PPC hardware includes hypervisor support in hardware. Apple disables this support in their G5s :-(
Eventually, a port of Xen to the Mac is planned (tentatively including a port of xnu, the Darwin / MacOS X kernel). This is some way off, however.
On Apple hardware, the best I know of right now is QEmu, which is not ideal. If, at some stage, a variant of the QEmu accelerator is added for PPC it'll likely be much faster.
Some IBM PPC hardware includes hypervisor support in hardware. Apple disables this support in their G5s :-(
Eventually, a port of Xen to the Mac is planned (tentatively including a port of xnu, the Darwin / MacOS X kernel). This is some way off, however.