Hello everybody,

Is there any way how to setup and run the OS2008 development environment on the MacOS X?...

gnocl (tk/tcl)
python

maemo? not unless you use x86 emulation...

possibly:

http://openosx.com/wintel/index.html (qemu)
http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/
http://www.vmware.com/
http://www.virtualbox.org/ (not shipping yet)
http://www.iemulator.com/
http://www.kberg.ch/q/ (qemu)

and from Wikipedia... quote:

Microsoft Virtual PC is a virtualization suite for Microsoft Windows operating systems, and an emulation suite for Mac OS X on PowerPC-based systems. The software was originally written by Connectix, and was subsequently acquired by Microsoft. In July 2006 Microsoft released the Windows-hosted version as a free product. In August 2006 Microsoft announced the Macintosh-hosted version would not be ported to Intel-based Macintoshes, effectively discontinuing the product as PowerPC-based Macintoshes are no longer manufactured.

- another fine example of embrace, extend, extinguish...

There is a maemo vmware appliance.

http://maemovmware.garage.maemo.org/

> maemo? not unless you use x86 emulation...

I had to read your reply a few times... My Mac has an Intel processor, as have any Mac's produced in the last 12 months. Apple phased out PowerPC over the last year or so, and no new Mac's are PowerPC based.

Having said that, I'd love to be able to run Maemo SDK on a Mac natively.

> There is a maemo vmware appliance.

So, it's free for Windows users, but $50 for Mac users? No way! VMWare Fusion is not a free product (as in cost) and there's not "player" for Mac OS X.

@ memson - I would suggest Virtual Box, it's in beta, but reasonably sturdy and can run whatever flavor of Windows or most flavors of linux you prefer/your box can handle

@josiahg777 Crashes and burns under Leopard. (Unless they actually fixed that issue now.)

There's a good posibility that the dev kit would work under MacOS X because *most* of it should compile.

Parallels has a vmware image converter. I may try that (as I have parallels).

@tabletrat again, not a free option. If you have bought Parallels, cool, but it costs (around, if not exactly) the same as VM Ware Fusion anyway.

Well, you can set up dual boot with Fanoush's initfs and OSX; there's a thread on getting the iTouch version of OSX to run on the tablets. (I knew it was just a matter of time, with the iTouch being ARM, too!) Then run your development stuff on the OSX side; but you'll need at least a 4GB card...

I know it costs, as I said, I had already bought it.

It isn't ideal that something isn't free, but it works for me so I am happy.