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This page provides recommended configurations for installing builds in a specific emulator or hypervisor. This page is by no means exhaustive, and your mileage may vary, so you may have to adjust some settings to your liking as it sees fit.

Overview
Currently, only the x86 versions of the NeXTSTEP and the Apple Rhapsody developer releases can be run. There are no emulators that are known to boot the m68k/SPARC/PA-RISC/PPC versions of NeXTSTEP or the Apple Rhapsody developer releases. As a result, only NeXTSTEP 3.1 and above can be run in virtualization software.

Either 86Box or VirtualBox can be used to get an optimal install of NeXTSTEP or Apple Rhapsody.

Overview
The i386 and amd64 variants of Linux are able to run on the most common emulators and hypervisors. Older versions with kernel version of 2.4 or older perform best on emulators such as 86Box or PCem, while newer versions with kernel version of 2.6 and newer perform best with hypervisors such as VirtualBox, VMware or QEMU.

Most other variants of Linux are only known to run on QEMU.