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Date:      Sun, 15 Jan 2006 07:41:18 -0800
From:      David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Intel Macs?
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On 1/14/06, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote:
>
> Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> >
> >>> iMac, download the EFI spec from www.intel.com, open up the existing
> >>
> >>
> >> For the lazy / impatient / bad searchers:
> >> http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/
> >
> >
> > On a related note, anyone know about any VMWare or Xen or other similar
> > virtual machine environment for Mac/Intel?  (FreeBSD on Virtual PC on
> > Rosetta sounds very scary... ;-(
> >
> > Tim
> >
>
> A meta-question to this is whether it will be possible to compile and
> boot OpenDarwin on these x86 machines, like you can with the PPC ones.
> If you can then I see no reason why Darwin couldn't be Xen-ified and
> serve as a Domain-0 host.
>
> Scott



I can't think of why opendarwin wouldn't work on a machine apple actually
supports hardware-wise.  Then again I didn't see any new releases of
software on opendarwin.org relating to 10.4.4 yet :).

I know the guy at apple who used to make these releases though and he's bee=
n
working on a cool build system for building the whole system from the tarre=
d
snapshot releases from time to time.  I used to test this stuff for him.

It will take interested people with actual time to do the Xen port of
course.  I'm not sure how much work a Xen host port is compared to a Xen
guest though.

Dave

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