Leopard in a cage

[award]

There is a new approach to getting Mac OS X running on every computer: Virtualization.

Alexander Graf implemented most things necessary to run Mac OS X in Qemu and KVM, so you can run it on Linux and Windows. Right now this is Source Code only, but if you're dare enough be sure to try it out:

 

http://alex.csgraf.de/self/?qemu/

[Hagar]

I ran 10.4.1 in qemu back in the day, it worked, but was "start up & leave overnight to boot" slow .. anyone with stacks of diskspace & the leopard flat img lying around should be able to give it a quick go..

[award]

Well the great part about this that it runs it unmodified - just pop in your real kernel and it works :-)

[Soündless]

then again with pc_efi, you can run unmodified kernels natively

[Urbz]

I'm with Hagar... it's great for testing it out or maybe playing with Leopard, but otherwise, it's very hard to get any work done. Great for web developers though (and probably cross-platform developers).

[Ai Haibara]

Well, this is not like standard virtualization.

KVM lets you use Hardware Virtualization (Intel VT and AMD Pacifica extensions), which makes the whole thing run faster than you might expect.

Furthemore, if this project will be able to do the same thing with XEN Virtual Machine Monitor, that will be a huge thing. Imagine the possibilities: you'll run Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X at the same time, without major loss of performance.

Great work, guy!

Sherry Haibara