Q is an open source Cocoa port developed by Mike Kronenberg and cordney based on QEMU. It’s basically an x86 emulator that allows you to install Windows, Linux, or any other x86-based operating system onto a special disk image file and run it, ala Virtual PC, from inside of a Mac OS X window. It’s now available as a Universal Binary which runs on both Intel and PPC macs.
This is great news, especially considering that Microsoft has no solid release date for an updated VirtualPC and VMWare isn’t (yet) in the Mac market. Knowing what I’d need XP for, I don’t think it would be worth risking my warranty (or disk partition space) for a fully bootable XP install. This solution seems great for testing purposes and possibly even using tools like Outlook or MSIE+Sharepoint at work.
Open Source folks sure are quick on the uptake sometimes…
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