Gah! Top posting... On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com>wrote: On 6 November 2013 19:21, Robert Heller <heller at 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-xen-domu/ [3] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/users/295693 -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //