From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVwKA-0008Gi-RZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 02:42:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVwK7-0006qF-Lb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 02:42:42 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-x232.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::232]:34712) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVwK7-0006pt-ET for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 30 Aug 2015 02:42:39 -0400 Received: by wizs10 with SMTP id s10so1828607wiz.1 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 23:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini References: <55E1D289.9000202@redhat.com> <55E1E03A.6060002@redhat.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <55E2A5D8.7010607@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 08:42:32 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55E1E03A.6060002@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Mount image file feature List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Max Reitz , Programmingkid Cc: Peter Maydell , qemu-devel qemu-devel On 29/08/2015 18:39, Max Reitz wrote: >> Mac OS X is a second-class citizen in the QEMU world... > > Might have to do something with most (?) of it being non-free and > Apple not caring enough about KVM. > > (And without KVM, people in turn don't care enough about OS X as a > qemu host.) > > ((But all of that is pretty biased speculation, of course.)) I don't think it's speculation. The Win32 port can be developed with cross-compilers and Wine. Mac OS X cannot. KVM is not particularly important factor in the picture. Paolo