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You might want to look at what people do to create a "hackintosh"
Essentially there are two things that will cause you problems. First is the Bios. Mac's use openfirmware which is directly related to the the firmware used sparc (SUN/Oracle) and power series (IBM AIX/LINUX) boxes.
I don't believe QEMU will pass the native BIOS interface to the VM so you may need a bootloader to emulate it.
Your next hurdle is the drivers. Essentially if you can get Open Darwin to boot in a QEMU hosted VM then you are 90% there. OSX restricts what hardware it supports via a white list in what's known as plist fies. Plist files are XML files which include as the value of a tag plain text, base 64 text, and even an other base 64 encoded plist file.
Editing them is kind of like pealing an onion and occasionally you peal one layer and find more onions inside.
With a little research it should be doable but it probably won't be easy unless someone has already written a tool to do it for you.
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Original Message
From: ToddAndMargo
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 17:43
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: KVM and OSx
On 03/19/2015 12:45 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Anyone get OSx working in KVM?
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> -T
>
Looking over at:
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/
Legal Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and this is
not legal advice. Taking into account that OS X is
now officially supported on commercial virtualization
solutions such as VMWare Fusion and Parallels, and after
a careful reading of Apple's OS X EULA (which states
that "[...] you are granted a [...] license to install,
use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a
single Apple-Branded computer at any one time"), it
is my belief that it's OK to run Mac OS X as a QEMU
guest, provided the host hardware is a genuine,
Apple-manufactured Mac computer, running an arbitrary
(e.g. Linux) host OS. This happens to be how I'm
using it, but YMMV.
Yikes!
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