On 11/6/2013 12:21, Robert Heller wrote:
> Is it even remotely possible to run MacOSX (or Darwin) as VM under CentOS 5.10
> / xen?
Darwin isn't going to do you any good, since you need to test GUIs.
Darwin is OS X minus everything Apple proprietary, including Cocoa,
Finder, Dock...
> Or am I better off not even trying and just getting a MacMini or
> MacBook to just jack into my LAN?
Yes. :)
The OS X license doesn't allow installing it on non-Apple hardware, even
inside a VM. This means that you *can* install OS X in a VM on a Mac,
so if you need several Mac instances, you don't necessarily need several
physical Macs.
> I don't really have the *physical* room for an iMac, unless the screen
> is tiny.
OS X comes with VNC, configured and ready to go. You just have to check
one box, in the Sharing settings pane, I believe. With a Mac Mini on
WiFi, you can put it anywhere in WiFi range with a power plug. There
are mounting brackets available for them, too. So, you could screw it
to the wall of a utility closet, if you wanted.
Being a real Unix[*] it also has ssh, and everything else you'd want for
remote administration. SSH access is also off by default, but like VNC,
just a checkbox away from being enabled. I believe they call it Remote
Access or some such, also in the Sharing pane.
> I can cross-build for MS-Windows using mgwin32
OS X makes a fine VM host, by the way. There are three major VM systems
for it, VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, and VirtualBox. All three run
Windows nicely.
By the way, it's MinGW, not mgwin. Minimal GNU for Windows. "Minimal"
here refers to the fact that it was created as an alternative to Cygwin,
which is much more heavyweight, but also a lot more capable.
There is a complete Cygwin cross-compilation toolchain for Fedora:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fedora-cygwin/
It may be possible to port it to CentOS. Since there are MinGW
cross-compilers in Cygwin, you could probably build for Windows through
that.
It's a lot less up front work to build on Windows, though.
[*] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1489/is-mac-os-x-unix