Hi folks,

I wonder if the virtual hard disk IMG files that PearPC uses are mountable on a genuine Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Did anybody ever try this / is there a way to convert them to mountable DMG files?

I want to place my PearPC virtual HD IMG file on an external (physical) HD, plug it into a real Mac running Panther (which we have at the office), mount the IMG as a volume, and take the modified IMG file back to my home PC to continue working on my files using the emulator again. Possible?

Thanks for your time.

not sure what you are asking.
files are files, they can be moved and placed on storage media regardless of the programs required to use them.
yes you can move the img file to a mac, and then to another computer, but can you use them in the mac?
well not directly as the data is placed there by windows, macs can read and write to windows drives but it is not true to say that windows can do the same. you need a way to open the img file and then save the image file so windows can also access it.
I have moved pearpc img files between my mac and win computers and burned them on cd-rw but I only had success with moving files to the img while networked.
I suppose that once you open the img on your mac that you could save it as a dmg and then run the dmg2iso utility, but you would have to do that every time you made a change.

matbe someone else has had better luck/ more time to play around and has a different approach.
the best thing would be for pearpc to read and write to a hd as well as the img.

In some instances you can't use an .img from a PC drive in a Mac, since the way the different filing systems save files. I had an .img I downloaded to an NTFS partition under Windows XP from a hotline server, and it wouldn't work in a Mac Emu or a real mac. Downloaded the same file in Hotline in Basilisk II and all was fine.

Someone on 68kmla suggested it was due to the PC drive throwing away the img's resource fork...the guys over there say there is no way to tranfer an img from a pc platform to a mac

I see - so the IMG format is rather a generic binary "dump" file than an actually mountable ISO / DMG, right?



True. However, there would be the need of generating a HFS+ formatted partition/HDD - not sure if the latest versions of partitioning tools like e.g. Partition Magic are able to do that (except Disk Utility on a real Mac running OS X of course).

Does anybody have an idea how difficult it would be to "teach" PearPC to directly access HFS+ formatted (external) hard disks? In my judgement, that would be the way to go - an external HFS+ formatted HDD carrying a bootable Mac OS X and all my files, then mounting it as another volume on a real Mac or using it as the bootdisk when PearPC is launched on a PC.

Just dreamin'... :)

I successfully mounted my Basilisk II/SheepShaver image under Panther in PearPC. I guess it should be the same on a real mac.

On Linux? Just as hard as modifying the config file. (e.g. set the hard drive file parameter to an external hard drive device, such as "/dev/sd0").