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I would imagine you'd need an ARM-based virtual machine. Perhaps QEMU could do it.

tomrod 13y ago
Makes sense.
LukeShu 13y ago
Qemu can indeed do it. http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/ http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-wa...
- Florin_Andrei 13y ago
  I just made a virtual machine like that. It only has 256 MB of RAM, and the screen resolution is something ridiculously tiny when in X Window. If I increase RAM, I get a black screen when launching the machine. If I try -vga std (hoping to get better resolution) I get an error.
liyanage 13y ago
That said, it sounds like it might be a hassle to get that to work on a Mac. I got the personal license of Mathematica for Mac a while ago and thought the price was reasonable for such a powerful system. The only thing that was driving me nuts is that Mathematica does not work properly on a Retina display, which of course is a shame as text and graphics would look gorgeous. Support for that is only planned for the next major version, according to Wolfram (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/30104/10565 http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/30104/10565). I recently found a hacky fix: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/21158/10565 http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/21158/10565 With that, Mathematica now looks fantastic on my MacBook Pro's built-in screen.
- taliesinb 13y ago
  V10 is retina aware, and it's coming out soon.
  - liyanage 13y ago
    Given how easy the quick fix is to apply, basic Retina support should really have been in a free minor-version update to 9, not in a presumably paid upgrade to 10, after a long wait.
    - taliesinb 13y ago
      I believe it required getting rid of some legacy libraries, which couldn't be achieved in a point release.
- wyager 13y ago
  Getting an ARM VM running Raspbian with QEMU on OS X is surprisingly easy. It's not like KVM would help with ARM anyway, so Rasbian+QEMU on OS X is basically the same as on Linux.

Makes sense.

Qemu can indeed do it. http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/ http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-wa...

Florin_Andrei 13y ago
I just made a virtual machine like that. It only has 256 MB of RAM, and the screen resolution is something ridiculously tiny when in X Window. If I increase RAM, I get a black screen when launching the machine. If I try -vga std (hoping to get better resolution) I get an error.

liyanage 13y ago

That said, it sounds like it might be a hassle to get that to work on a Mac. I got the personal license of Mathematica for Mac a while ago and thought the price was reasonable for such a powerful system. The only thing that was driving me nuts is that Mathematica does not work properly on a Retina display, which of course is a shame as text and graphics would look gorgeous. Support for that is only planned for the next major version, according to Wolfram (http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/30104/10565 http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/30104/10565). I recently found a hacky fix: http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/21158/10565 http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/21158/10565 With that, Mathematica now looks fantastic on my MacBook Pro's built-in screen.

taliesinb 13y ago
V10 is retina aware, and it's coming out soon.
- liyanage 13y ago
  Given how easy the quick fix is to apply, basic Retina support should really have been in a free minor-version update to 9, not in a presumably paid upgrade to 10, after a long wait.
  - taliesinb 13y ago
    I believe it required getting rid of some legacy libraries, which couldn't be achieved in a point release.
wyager 13y ago
Getting an ARM VM running Raspbian with QEMU on OS X is surprisingly easy. It's not like KVM would help with ARM anyway, so Rasbian+QEMU on OS X is basically the same as on Linux.