On Aug 21, 2015, at 5:53 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > >> Am 21.08.2015 um 12:08 schrieb Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com>: >> >> >>> On Aug 21, 2015, at 2:57 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> >>>> On 19 August 2015 at 20:40, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Aug 19, 2015, at 3:25 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 18 August 2015 at 14:12, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Do you think this should be a Google Summer of Code project? >>>>> >>>>> I guess it's probably a size that would work for a GSoC >>>>> project with a suitably capable and enthusiastic student. >>>>> >>>>> Are you asking because you would want to do it as a GSoC >>>>> project yourself, or because you'd like to see it on the list >>>>> so somebody might apply and volunteer to do it? >>>> >>>> I would do it myself but I don't know too much about hypervisors, >>>> so I'm hoping there is someone else out there who is far more >>>> qualified to do it. This will probably take a GSOC student to do it. >>>> Maybe I will add this to the 2016 GSOC page if it exists yet. >>> >>> I spoke to Alex Graf, who said he'd had a look into the OSX >>> hypervisor API. Apparently the amount of work required to >>> support this would be more than my initial glance at the API >>> suggested, so it's really too large to be a GSOC project. >>> Also a major problem is that it would be a large amount of >>> code which would need to be maintained into the future by >>> somebody, which makes a GSOC project a poor fit -- GSOC >>> students often don't stick around after the end of the summer, >>> so there wouldn't be a maintainer for the code. >> >> Do you think it would be possible to use VirtualBox's hypervisor with QEMU >> on Mac OS X, and/or Linux, and/or Windows? > > Yes and no. The virtualbox kernel interface consists of 2 ioctls: > > - copy code into executable kernel space > - jump to offset in that code in kernel mode > > So all of the logic of vbox is implemented in an additional blob that needs > to get loaded on demand. There are no guarantees for stable interfaces to > that blob whatsoever.
Do you think there is any hope for hypervisor support in Mac OS X for QEMU?
