Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 28/36] tests: Add ubuntu.i386 image

[Programmingkid]

> On Sep 25, 2017, at 4:57 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 04:26:40PM -0400, Programmingkid wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sep 22, 2017, at 9:18 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 08:44:05PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 09/22 08:10, Programmingkid wrote:
>>>>> Could a Darwin test be added? Both x86 and PowerPC versions would be 
>>>>> great.
>>>> 
>>>> It's nice to cover macOS in our test, but to be honest I don't know how to 
>>>> do
>>>> it. If there isn't any copyright problem, and if there are instructions
>>>> available in wiki.qemu.org descirbing how to create such a guest step by 
>>>> step
>>>> like [1], we can add one.
>>> 
>>> AFAICT we can not just provide or host OS-X images and let individual
>>> devs run the without it being a license violation, so best avoided.
>> 
>> Actually Darwin and Mac OS X are not the same. Darwin is this minimalistic
>> environment and Mac OS X is built on top of that environment. There would
>> be no license problems when using Darwin only.
> 
> I looked for images of Darwin but haven't been able to find any modern
> ones. Wikipedia claims that Apple stopped releasing installable images
> of Darwin so you have to build it from source :-(

I did find this project: http://www.puredarwin.org, but they haven't released 
an image file yet.

> 
>>> IMHO it easier to just rely on Travis' OS-X builders for testing OS-X
>>> platform builds, so that licensing compliance is their responsibility.
>> 
>> That might work for the x86 version of Mac OS X, but there doesn't appear
>> to be any support for the PowerPC version of Mac OS X.
> 
> Yeah, no PPC support, but then that's essentially a dead platform, so it
> is questionable whether we need to care about OS-X PPC support for QEMU.
> The last PPC OS-X hardware shipped 2006.

Good point.