On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On 25.01.2009, at 09:16, Neo Jia wrote: >> >>> hi, >>> >>> I am thinking if it is possible to port KVM to Mac OS (leopard). Is >>> there anybody doing this already? >> >> I've considered doing it, but haven't gotten around to it, due to lack of >> inspiration. >> The biggest problem IMHO is the sync. Rewriting a kvm module for Mac OS X >> should be fairly easy, but you'll miss all the good bugfixes from upstream. >> Using the upstream code with a wrapper on the other hand is probably a >> really big hassle, because osx doesn't really know about mmu notifiers and a >> lot of other Linux internal things. > > Most of the special Linux internal things are optional when using the > external kernel modules (in order to support older host kernels). If you > rely on that, there shouldn't be a huge amount of Linux-specific > dependencies. > > Best thing to do would be to avoid touching the KVM source code as much as > humanly possible, and try to write a compatibility layer on top of the > external kernel modules. You could even use awk trickery like make sync > does. That way you can get bugfixes almost for free. Thanks! I am reviewing the possible interface wrapper solution now. But I just notice that the current leopard is 32-bit. Will this be a problem to run KVM as it always assume qemu-x86-64 bit? Thanks, Neo > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > >> So if you come up with a good idea for this problem, I'd be glad to help >> you out as much as time permits :-). >> >> Alex >> >>> If it is possible, which KVM release should I use as a start? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Neo >>> -- >>> I would remember that if researchers were not ambitious >>> probably today we haven't the technology we are using! >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in >>> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- I would remember that if researchers were not ambitious probably today we haven't the technology we are using! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
