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

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

Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> 20.10.2010, 18:23, "Alexander Graf" <ag...@su...>:
>   
>> Am 20.10.2010 um 14:47 schrieb Konstantin Tokarev <an...@ya...>:
>>
>>     
>>>  17.10.2010, 11:48, "Alexander Graf" <ag...@su...>:
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>>>>  Am 17.10.2010 um 09:45 schrieb Konstantin Tokarev <an...@ya...>:
>>>>         
>>>>>>   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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   If you want to run Linux VMs on PPC, please use a Linux host and KVM :)
>>>>>>             
>>>>>   I thought Linux would work because of this article
>>>>>
>>>>>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac-on-Mac
>>>>>
>>>>>   and statement that Mac-on-Mac code was incorporated into Mac-on-Linux. Did it worked someday? What is the problem?
>>>>>           
>>>>  Linux guests in MOL require special guest kernel patches to enable Linux for the pv mol machine.
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>>>  Does it mean that Mac OS is also paravirtualized in MoL?
>>>       
>> Yes, it is.
>>     
>
> Could you explain a bit more how does it work?
> Are you loading OS X with modified Mach?
>   

MOL replaces Mac OS's boot loader. With that in place, it replaces
instructions in the kernel by PV versions and injects osx kernel modules
into the kernel. Check mollib/drivers/ for the blobs. I honestly don't
know where the source would be they were built from.

If anyone else on the list got a hint on where the sources to those
binary blobs are from (except for OpenBIOS, which is obvious), I'd
totally appreciate it.


Alex