Re: [Mac-on-linux-devel] MoL on Mac OS X

[Alexander G. <ag...@su...>]

Am 17.10.2010 um 09:45 schrieb Konstantin Tokarev <an...@ya...>:

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>> Linux guests don't work, BSD even less so. There used to be at least minimal support for Linux, but I haven't seen any efforts towards BSD.
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>> If you want to run Linux VMs on PPC, please use a Linux host and KVM :)
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> I thought Linux would work because of this article
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac-on-Mac
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> and statement that Mac-on-Mac code was incorporated into Mac-on-Linux. Did it worked someday? What is the problem?
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Linux guests in MOL require special guest kernel patches to enable Linux for the pv mol machine. There are kernels out there with those, but I frankly never got it to work, so I'd assume it's broken :). That doesn't mean you shouldn't try though, give it a go! Maybe it works for you.

Alex