Re: [Xen-users] Xen and OS X.

[Steffan Cline <steffan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here are most of the links I have accumulated:

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Snow_Leopard_Server_on_Xen
https://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/x86-xen-efi
http://blog.definedcodehosting.com/osx-qemu-kvm
https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=34864.0

Yes, some links are KVM but they use QEMU which I know is also possible with 
Xen to an extent. I found some good information that crosses over on the 
virtualization platforms.

The roadblock I ran into is that OS X uses UEFI. I just installed the latest 
xen kernel and tools. I need to see if the UEFI support is there and it 
*should* work.

In one of those I found links to creating a hackintosh bootable USB. I then 
made an image of it and tried to boot a Xen VM from it but it said the CD Rom 
couldn’t read it.

If anyone else wants to do it as a “proof of concept” with a group effort, I’m 
all in.



Thank you,
Steffan Cline
602-793-0014


On 7/26/16, 9:05 AM, "Xen-users on behalf of Simon Hobson" 
<xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    Steffan Cline <steffan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    
    > Can we please not digress into a flame war and ruin the intent?
    
    +1
    
    > This is an important thread to me as I have spent hours reading online 
for examples on how to do this.
    
    Out of interest, did you find anything useful ? I know last time I looked I 
found very little, and it would be quite useful to me to be able to get one 
running.
    
    
    
    
    
    Jason Long <hack3rcon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    
    > I guess you are a MACFAG because you don't know the computer and apple 
story.
    
    Actually, I know it very well - clearly better than you do. Please cut the 
insults and crap, learn how to quote and trim properly (you don't seem to be 
trying even after many prompts), but above all take the crap and politics 
somewhere else.
    
    
    > You install Linux on Mac? Haha why never use a Linux laptop :)
    
    Why not - a "Linux" laptop is just a laptop that's running Linux<period>. 
As you have so inelegantly pointed out, a Mac is a PC at heart (Apple even 
include the means to create a Windows driver disk for dual booting), so why 
should it be such a surprise. At one time I was running Linux (Yellow Dog) on a 
PowerPC Macbook Pro.
    Sometimes there is more to it than just a name.
    
    And for the record, I have also done a number of "spec up a comparable 
system" exercises over the years - and you know what, Apple generally don't 
come out badly ! Yes they are expensive, but mostly that's because they don't 
do low spec crap like most vendors do. If you actually compare like-like you'll 
find that systems from most other vendors are also expensive.
    
    But this is really off topic for both the thread and the list.
    
    
    Let me give you some advice, because you really seem to need it.
    If you are going to demand help from a mailing list, then you really should 
try not to annoy those you are asking for help. You have no *RIGHT* to time 
from anyone here - we are here because we've got benefits from Xen and are 
doing what we can to help others get that. But that is done in what spare time 
we have, and to be honest, patience wears thin with people who refuse to use 
good netiquette, and eventually start insulting you.
    
    So if you want help, then do yourself a favour and take this advice :
    1) When you reply, ensure that what you quote is quoted properly (it hasn't 
been in your last few messages). If your mail client is rubbish, get a 
different client - ANY half decent mail client will get this right.
    2) Don't leave the whole of the message in your reply. TRIM IT and quote 
only what's needed to set the context. Again, *ANY* half decent mail client 
will do this, if yours doesn't then get one that does.
    Put another way, YOU put in a few seconds of your time to make it easy for 
everyone on the list you are expecting to help you.
    If you ignore either or both of these then that shouts "you don't care 
enough about my time to spend the few seconds making it easy for us to read 
your emails". If you don't care about my time, then why should I care about 
helping you ?
    
    
    
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