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Olsro / ipodclickwheelgamespreservationproject

Preservation of iPod Clickwheel Games for iPod Nanos 3g to 5g and iPod Classics 5g to 7g
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Suggestion: Make version of the VM on VirtualBox instead of/additionally to UTM #15

Open CJthisis opened 2 weeks ago

CJthisis commented 2 weeks ago

UTM seems to be Apple-exclusive, and Virtualbox has installers right on their website for Mac, Windows and Linux.

For the majority of users, to use this VM, they either have to install a new OS or set up a Ubuntu VM, which takes time and absolutely kills performance, in case of a Ubuntu VM running on Windows (ask me how I know).

Im sadly not smart enough to "port" the VM myself, but maybe is it possible.

Also, a port to OVF (Open Virtualization Format) would change the installation and use for the better, since it can be imported into many different virtualization programs, even Windows Hyper-V

Thank you for reading this!

seangibbz commented 6 days ago

This should be easy enough to accomplish with an additional batch file to convert the Qemu image (qcow2) to Virtualbox (vdi) using qemu-img.

Using the vmware script as a base, I've created a batch script that should work.

With that said, I don't know what files VirtualBox requires outside of the hard disk image, so your milage may vary.

Olsro commented 4 days ago

Feel free to make a merge request to increase the compability.

Qemu was used as a base because it allow not only to virtualize windows, but also allows to emulate a complete CPU architecture so it can run correctly also on Apple Silicon Macs and ARM64 Linux PCs.