Minix 3 on a Mac
Installing Bochs on a Mac is a pain. First you have to compile it, (no big deal with the standard ./configure && make && make install). Then you find it trashed your /usr/local directory with its files. When you finally make it run, it turns out the Carbon interface sucks 100% CPU even when the emulated PC is doing nothing. On top of all that, Minix fails to boot.
Given that Minix is the reason I wanted Bochs for in the first place, this is a bit of a let down. Luckily I found out about the Mac OS X version of QEmu. It booted Minix from the CD-ROM image with no problems. I ran “setup”, and in a couple of minutes I had Minix installed on the emulated disk. Joy!
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