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Howto: Mac OSX on KVM

25 points by garply 17y ago

abdulla 17y ago
Chrome says this link is malware.
- garply 17y ago
  Really? Chrome didn't tell me it was malware. But, as far as I can tell, it's not - it's just a wiki page.
- grandalf 17y ago
  my chrome doesn't...
- ax0n 17y ago
  Google Safebrowsing API Triggered the same thing on my FireFox just now.
- tyrmored 17y ago
  Same here, Firefox 3.5.7.
bcl 17y ago
I wonder how performance compares to VMWare? The last time I tried OSX in a VMWare session it was so slow that it was useless.
- garply 17y ago
  I'm trying to do it right now, I'll let you know when I've succeeded. Unfortunately, the packaging is in rpm format and my distro doesn't support it (well, I can install rpm, but it appears to be broken, so I have to hack around).
  - antidaily 17y ago
    10.5 or 10.6?
    - garply 17y ago
      10.6
  - bcl 17y ago
    Take a look at alien for converting the rpm, or rpm2cpio for extracting the tar.gz inside it.
- sailormoon 17y ago
  Might have something to do with how "heavy" OSX's graphics are, to the extent it really requires graphics acceleration to just draw normal windows. VMWare can't pass that through to the graphics card in the correct way, so it's really, really slow. I'm pretty interested in running OSX in a VMWare container for some command line operations, though. I would like to use OSX to do some media manipulation and webkit work that would be an ultra-pain on Linux but is fairly simple on OSX, but I want it on "normal" hardware, so I'll be looking into stuff like this (when it's shaken down a bit more ..)
zppx 17y ago
I have been using this: http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?part/projects&folder/Qemu%20OSX&type/&project/projects&parameters/id=Qemu%20OSX http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?part/projects&folder/Qemu%20... in a triple booted MacBook for some low-level testing on OS X, just to see how it works following the Mac OS X Internals book, the performance is passable, I use virtualization because Apple don't have an ADC Hardware Purchase Program for Brazil and Apple hardware are really expensive here.
- garply 17y ago
  This is the same project discussed in the wiki.

25 points by garply 17y ago

abdulla 17y ago

Chrome says this link is malware.

garply 17y ago
Really? Chrome didn't tell me it was malware. But, as far as I can tell, it's not - it's just a wiki page.
grandalf 17y ago
my chrome doesn't...
ax0n 17y ago
Google Safebrowsing API Triggered the same thing on my FireFox just now.
tyrmored 17y ago
Same here, Firefox 3.5.7.

bcl 17y ago

I wonder how performance compares to VMWare? The last time I tried OSX in a VMWare session it was so slow that it was useless.

garply 17y ago
I'm trying to do it right now, I'll let you know when I've succeeded. Unfortunately, the packaging is in rpm format and my distro doesn't support it (well, I can install rpm, but it appears to be broken, so I have to hack around).
- antidaily 17y ago
  10.5 or 10.6?
  - garply 17y ago
    10.6
- bcl 17y ago
  Take a look at alien for converting the rpm, or rpm2cpio for extracting the tar.gz inside it.
sailormoon 17y ago
Might have something to do with how "heavy" OSX's graphics are, to the extent it really requires graphics acceleration to just draw normal windows. VMWare can't pass that through to the graphics card in the correct way, so it's really, really slow. I'm pretty interested in running OSX in a VMWare container for some command line operations, though. I would like to use OSX to do some media manipulation and webkit work that would be an ultra-pain on Linux but is fairly simple on OSX, but I want it on "normal" hardware, so I'll be looking into stuff like this (when it's shaken down a bit more ..)

zppx 17y ago

I have been using this: http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?part/projects&folder/Qemu%20OSX&type/&project/projects&parameters/id=Qemu%20OSX http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?part/projects&folder/Qemu%20... in a triple booted MacBook for some low-level testing on OS X, just to see how it works following the Mac OS X Internals book, the performance is passable, I use virtualization because Apple don't have an ADC Hardware Purchase Program for Brazil and Apple hardware are really expensive here.

garply 17y ago
This is the same project discussed in the wiki.