Virtualization software for a PPC970 Mac

Well, since Microsoft pulled the ol' Embrace-Extend-Extinguish on Virtual PC, stating that they would drop support for the Mac version with Apple's switch to Intel (fuck YOU, Ballmer, you nematode), I'm stuck with an emulator that will slowly but surely lapse into obsolescence.

So...my question to you, the legions of GFF Computing, is:

What's some good virtualization/X86 emulation software for Mac OS X? Mind you that I'm running a PowerPC 970 based Power Mac G5. So no Intel-only stuff (i.e. Parallels Desktop is out of the game).

Matters of preference:
-I'd like to be able to take advantage of my quad-core setup. Any hardware-virtualization capability would be a plus, but I recognize the pitfalls inherent in virtualizing x86 on PPC970.

-I'd like to do minimal CLI tinkering. I know my way around BSD and am able to do CLI hackery if need be, but dammit, I'm a Mac user and I like my shiny, pretty GUIs.

-I'd like something that's known to work well with all major x86 operating systems out there since I don't know exactly what I'll be using it for at this point in time. Vista is excluded from this rule, as it's still new and there are bound to be problems and stumbling blocks. So basically Win9x, Win2K/XP, Linux preferably with X functional.

Thankee sirs muchly. I do appreciate the help.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Don't mix emulation with virtualization, coz it's not the same - it's really something completly different. Example:

You have
machine A, equipt with a x86 CPU and
machine B, with a PowerPC processor installed

You can now emulate a x86 CPU on both machine A and B, even emulate a PowerPC CPU on A and B, BUT you CAN'T virtualize a PowerPC on machine A, OR virtualize a x86 on B.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Okay, that makes sense.

In that case...

s/virtualization/emulation/g

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I don't think there is another PPC emulation program besides Virtual PC...The only reason we have more for the Intel chips are because it is substantially easier to build for.

How ya doing, buddy?

Frell.

I guess them's the breaks when you use a less prolific platform.

I read about an emulator called QEMU, I might give that one a whirl.

Keep the suggestions coming if you have them. Stupid Microsoft, stupid Virtual PC, grumble mutter snort.

I was speaking idiomatically.

QEMU does both emulation and virtualization (virtualization with the kqemu kernel module, IIRC only available for x86 architecture). Using virt. instead of emulation should result in a big speed boost.
If you're looking for another emulator then you should try out Bochs. It's not that fast but does a good job, and beware: It does only emulate - the full way. It's like playing your SNES roms with bsnes *g*

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Bochs, you say?

I shall investigate this so-called..."Bochs."

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AFAIK hosted on sourceforge, I only tried it once for playing some old DOS game - config was a bit tricky, so you better read the docs first before trying anything.

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