Re: [Mac-on-linux-users] [Mac-on-linux-devel] MOL on MacIntel?

[Nathan S. <nda...@gm...>]

On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 18:35 -0800, John Wright wrote: 
> Is there any possibility that MOL will be ported to
> Intel Macs?  I had to go MacIntel when my PPC Mac
> Mini died;  I like Fedora 8 on the Intel mini well
> enough, but I sure miss being able to run the
> occasional Mac app without re-booting!
> 
> Is there anything that I am not aware of that makes
> this difficult?  Like, Apple munging with the Intel
> MacOS to prevent its running on non-Apple hardware,
> that might make it difficult to boot from Linux?
> 
>         -jmw-
> 
>  Dr. John M. Wright, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, M/S 0314, UCSD,
>  La Jolla, CA 92093-0314; email: jwright(at)ucsd(dot)edu; phone: 858-534-3049
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There are no currently plans to port MOL to x86 due to the scope of the
task and the limited resources (namely time) of the MOL development
team.  As I understand it, MOL relies on some ppc-specific features, so
a port to x86 would require a major effort.

Though perhaps the increasing demand for such a product will eventually
lead to a port (or Mac OS X virtualization options from other
virtualization software suites).  However, there may be legal problems
such software, since Apple's license does not allow for OS X to be run
on non-Apple hardware, which a port of MOL would facilitate (though I
read that 10.5 server may allow virtualization on non-Apple hardware).

-- 
Nathan Smith
nda...@gm...