Re: [Xen-users] Apple iMac / Mac Mini Core Duo, OS X under Xen?

[yhlu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>]

FYI

You can use Firmware to boot Linux Kernel with kexec support, and use
Kexec tools (with multiboot support ) to boot the xen.

I have tried LinuxBIOS+Kernel+Kexec could boot the xen. So I assume
you can use EFI to load Linux Kernel and use Kexec to load you xen.

Thanks

YH

On 3/13/06, Greg Cymbalski <cymbalski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does the presence of VMX in cpuinfo necessarily mean the whole platform
> supports it?  I've only played with a few machines with hardware VT which
> was enabled after a BIOS upgrade and now, unfortunately, I can't go back and
> see if the flag showed up originally.
>
>  Besides, will Xen boot from EFI?
>
>
> On 3/13/06, Erik Dykema <dykema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Greg-
> >      Thanks for your response.  It's my understanding that hardware
> > virtualization IS currently available on the intel based Macs by
> > virtue of their Core Duo chips, see:
> >
> > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/IntelVT
> > and
> > http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/linux/
> >
> > On the 2nd page, it shows the output of proc/cpuinfo, which shows VMX,
> > the cpu flag for hardware virtualization.
> >
> >      It is possible that some extra work needs to be done to
> > virtualize the extra 'trusted computing' chip which OS X requires.
> >
> > Erik
> >
> > On 3/13/06, Greg Cymbalski < cymbalski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > As the unmodified guests OSX and Windows would require hardware
> > > virtualisation, which is not present on intel-based Macs (yet), plus the
> > > fact that OSX has software-based restrictions on what hardware it can
> run on
> > > (which would probably make it impossible to run it legally under Xen
> > > depending on how you interpret the EULA), it seems unlikely that it will
> be
> > > working at any point in the near future.  I'm sure it's only a matter of
> > > time before people get cracked versions of OSX running atop hardware
> > > virtualisation, though.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/13/06, Erik Dykema < dykema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > >  Hi-
> > >      Is anyone trying Xen on the intel iMac or Mac Mini machines, with
> > > hardware virtualization?
> > >      There has been lots of speculation on the blogs & etc., that it
> > > will be possible to run Linux w/ Xen as the dom0, and then Windows XP
> > > and OS X on top of it, but no one seems to be talking about it on this
> > > list.  Has anyone tried it?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Erik
> >
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