Gah! Top posting...
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Andrew Holway andrew.holway@gmail.comwrote:
On 6 November 2013 19:21, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
Is it even remotely possible to run MacOSX (or Darwin) as VM under CentOS
5.10
/ xen? Or am I better off not even trying and just getting a MacMini or
It might actually be possible to run OSX as a Xen VM (DomU). [2] [3] But I'd suspect it requires hardware virt support (not paravirt).
MacBook to just jack into my LAN? I just need a 'build box' and possibly something to do light testing (eg does the program run? Does the GUI come up?). I don't really have the *physical* room for an iMac, unless the
screen
is tiny.
It is more likely to work on a later Kernel and then and more likely
with KVM. KVM shipped with 5.x and 6.x Enterprise linux is now old and fusty. A bit like your Unix beard :)
I had all kinds of horrible problems running FreeBSD on these hypervisors. Try Fedora 19. This is sparkly and fresh.
I considered attempting an OSX install for testing a while back, but ended up moving on to other projects.
I recall that KVM had to emulate certain hardware -- requiring a patched version of the KVM hypervisor.
I can't speak for the accuracy or completeness of the following information, but here it is. [0] [1]
[0] http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/ [1] http://d4wiki.goddamm.it/index.php?title=Howto:_Mac_OSX_on_KVM [2] http://www.bisente.com/blog/2011/03/15/macos-xen-snow-leopard-as-guest-on-a-... [3] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/users/295693