Dual booting Leopard and Xp on Powerbook g4

[SawyerTHEBEST]

My system: Powerbook g4 1.6hz 1gb ram, and would like to play some games, which you know don't existfor powerpc macs. I know I can run a virtual machine with xp in it. BUT that kills performanceon this already old machine, so how would I dual boot XP and Leopard?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

You do not, as a PowerBook uses the PowerPC CPU architecture (IBM and Motorola) and Windows XP needs the x86 CPU architecture (AMD and Intel), thus you will not be able to install Windows XP on that machine as a bootable OS.

You can only run Windows XP as a bootable OS on an Intel Mac.

 

[CptSky]

The only Windows version existing for a PowerPC architecture are Windows NT 3.51, 4.00. So, we can say that it's impossible to dual boot a G4 with Windows. You'll need an Intel Mac, or to virtualize Windows through Virtual PC or something like QEMU. But, the results shouldn't be good due to the small power of your G4...