Re: [Qemu-devel] Summer of Code 2010

[Alexander Graf]

On 09.03.2010, at 16:44, Natalia Portillo wrote:

>> 
>> Nice :-). I'd love to mentor. We have a lot of open things to do in the PPC 
>> space, but I could just as well use help with finally getting x86 Mac OS X 
>> guest support upstream ;-).
>> 
>> So who's sending out the actual project application? I'd feel odd if I'd do 
>> it.
> 
> I hope that with native EFI and Mac's memory space, not just a PCI PC booting 
> a hacked OS X (we do not want Apple to see QEMU as a piracy movement, 
> watching what happened to Psystar)

I was talking about my work that tried to model Qemu towards what xnu expects. 
There's quite some work left to do to get it upstream, slowly moving us towards 
a real -M mac machine type. Using EFI or not is the least of our problems IMHO.

Hacked OS X version should work already, but I don't care about those.


Alex