Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin

From	Geico Caveman <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Message-ID	<2011040817194216807-spammersgohere@spaminvalid> (permalink)
Subject	Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin
Organization	TeraNews.com
Date	2011-04-08 17:19 -0500

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I have a few programs available over an NFS mount that are targetted at 
the Linux AMD64 architecture. They use Xorg/X11, which is available on 
my Mac (Xquartz).

I am running Snow Leopard on an Intel 64-bit machine. I am certain that 
if I ran Linux on the same hardware, I would be able to run those 
programs (there are linux distributions available which can transform a 
mac into a linux machine - they have been around since the PPC days).

So, far, I have been getting by with a virtual machine running lubuntu 
and running it via VMware.

My question is - is there a binary translator of some sort that will 
allow me to run these programs on the mac "natively" ? I guess I am 
looking to avoid the overhead involved in running the virtual machine 
(or messing with Parallels). Yes, if push came to shove, I could buy a 
dedicated desktop for this, but let us say I do not want to buy a 
desktop and I do not want to use a virtual machine.

These simulation programs run in the background and need only minimal 
interaction with the user beyond the graphical results they generate.

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Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Geico Caveman <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> - 2011-04-08 17:19 -0500
  Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2011-04-08 17:34 -0500
    Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Geico Caveman <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> - 2011-04-08 18:51 -0500
      Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2011-04-08 20:54 -0500
      Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2011-04-08 21:40 -0700
      Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-10 12:22 +0200
  Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2011-04-09 03:43 -0400
  Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Marko Vihoma <marko.vihoma@whereever.invalid> - 2011-04-13 09:58 +0300
  Re: Running binaries for other architectures on Darwin Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2011-04-13 08:47 -0700

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