Re: [Xen-users] Xen on a MacBook Pro? The ultimate developer setup?

[Andrew Bobulsky <rulerof@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello John,

On Apr 10, 2013, at 9:00 PM, John Sherwood <jrs@xxxxxx> wrote:

> I would suggest that Xen is not going to get you what you want; to my 
> knowledge, you cannot simply virtualize OSX on top of Xen even on a Macbook, 
> as OSX looks for a special piece of hardware that Xen does not (and perhaps 
> legally cannot) virtualize. Passthrough may get you there, but that's a 
> whole, huge can of worms that you should probably read more about before 
> considering.
<snip>

I believe that, with a difficult-to-quantify amount of work, whatever
allows standard builds of OS X to run on a commodity x86/64 system
could theoretically also allow Xen to host the OS in an HVM DomU.  I
always figured that it has been done, but never looked into it beyond
some basic googling.

My interest in it was to see if it was possible to run it on a Xen
host with an IOMMU.  Install it alongside Windows and Linux, PCI
Hotplug a single video card around for the ultimate triple-boot :P

Just my two cents, of course! ;)

Cheers,
Andrew

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