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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] future OS X support
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To: mike.kronenberg@kberg.ch
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Hi,

Mike Kronenberg wrote:
> @Fabrice
> How are your plans about supporting OS X in the future?
> 
> We, for our part, are eager to push dev on OS X:
> - with the patches of Gwenole and pbrook, qemu 0.8.2 builds great on  OS 
> X ppc and intel (gcc4). All tests are OK.

Maybe I can merge part of it if the changes are not too intrusive ?

> - I'm willing to rewrite my OS X block.c patches for hardware CD-ROM  
> support.

OK.

> - I've just written a complete new cocoa frontend based on Anthony  
> shmem patches (quartz and openGL). (only problem is the 4mb limit on  OS 
> X atm)

Good. Why is cocoa.m not sufficient ?

> - There are some other small patches like basic bootorder support  that 
> are ready, too.

This one will be merged ASAP.

> As qemu was one of the first usable emulators on OS X, it is still  
> widely used and known.
> Things even look like we get included on the C'T disk next month

IMHO, you should concentrate on porting kqemu on Mac OS X. I don't think 
it should be more more complicated than the other ports. I can provide 
support for that if someone if motivated. With kqemu you would be able 
to compete with the other (and more expensive !) virtualizers...

Regards,

Fabrice.