Re: Porting KVM to Mac OS?

[Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>]

Alexander Graf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 25.01.2009, at 09:16, Neo Jia wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> I am thinking if it is possible to port KVM to Mac OS (leopard). Is
>> there anybody doing this already?
>
> I've considered doing it, but haven't gotten around to it, due to lack 
> of inspiration.
> The biggest problem IMHO is the sync. Rewriting a kvm module for Mac 
> OS X should be fairly easy, but you'll miss all the good bugfixes from 
> upstream. Using the upstream code with a wrapper on the other hand is 
> probably a really big hassle, because osx doesn't really know about 
> mmu notifiers and a lot of other Linux internal things.

You can use hardware breakpoints to emulate mmu notifiers beaivor for 
kernel that you cannot patch.
The only issue is that beacuse the source is close you may never know 
where is the right place to put the notification.

>
> So if you come up with a good idea for this problem, I'd be glad to 
> help you out as much as time permits :-).
>
> Alex
>
>> If it is possible, which KVM release should I use as a start?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Neo
>> -- 
>> I would remember that if researchers were not ambitious
>> probably today we haven't the technology we are using!
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