FYI, I was just looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines and saw a number of what looked like cross-CPU virtualization or emulators that would provide a PowerPC guest environment on an x86/x64 or SPARC host; at least a couple free (GXemul as well as QEMU), and a number of proprietary ones. Depending on functionality, price, and license terms, even the proprietary ones might be worth looking at.
I recall at least one of the free ones having been mentioned (as not yet adequate), but not which nor whether anyone (qualified, i.e. not me) has looked at any of the others as potential development platforms. Of course, some idea what both Sun and the community expect the ultimate platform(s) to be might be useful to inform such a review, since something closest to that/those might be a better starting point. This message posted from opensolaris.org
